If you find yourself in this situation (A server is already running) often:

=> Run `rails server -h` for more startup options
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
A server is already running. Check /tmp/pids/server.pid.
Exiting

What you do includes, for instance, killing the process by its process id:

cat /tmp/pids/server.pid
kill -9 PID

But this is boring. And you have to do it all the times. This gems creates a shortcut to fix the 'A server is already running' problem when dealing with Rails.

$ cd PROJECT_ROOT_FOLDER
$ gem install shutup

$ cd PROJECT_ROOT_FOLDER
$ rvm @global do gem install shutup

After installing the gem run:

$ cd PROJECT_ROOT_FOLDER
$ shutup

TEST IT: try to start the Rails app, open a new terminal window and then type:

$ shutup

To see how this gem kills the current process.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lorenzosinisi/shutup.

1. Write tests
2. Kill other type of apps (Node, PHP, Scala)
3. Improve the error messages and error handling

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.