Can't stop rails server

Question

I am new to rails and I am using an ubuntu machine and the rubymine IDE. The problem is that I am unable to stop the rails server. I tried to stop the server by killing the

Answer 1

Use ctrl+c to shutdown your Webrick Server.

Unfortunately if its not works then forcefully close the terminal and restart it.

Another trick is that

1. open your system-monitor(a gui application) on ubuntu

2. Select processes tab 

3. Then look for a process having name 'ruby'

4. End that process

Answer 2

you can use grep command in following way,

ps aux | grep rails

and then

kill -9 {process_id} 

Answer 3

On my MAC the killall -9 rails does not work. But killall -9 ruby does.