In the past, I could exit my rails application launched using webbrick using CtrlC. At some point in development, this functionality broke ( Ctrl<
Seemed to have solved my own problem. Authlogic
gem "authlogic", :git => 'http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic.git'
appears to be the root cause of this problem. I've opened an issue here
why not trap()ing signals?
http://theriyanto.wordpress.com/2006/04/05/develop-a-simple-webserver-using-webrick/