In the past, I could exit my rails application launched using webbrick using CtrlC. At some point in development, this functionality broke ( Ctrl<
I have been experiencing similar issues, specifically on Ubuntu 11.04 (things were fine on 10.04). I've created another question that was more specific to my particular setup, but it sounds like there is a lot of crossover, so people might be interested in reading it as well: Can't stop WEBrick 1.3.1 with ctrl-c on Ubuntu 11.04