Ghost Localhost server
Dont you just hate when you run out of the office/house/building without quitting your server? I know I do. When i first started development this would be a daily occurrence. Here is a quick tip on getting rid of those hidden servers that are running on your machine. (this is the ruby version, I am sure this will work with most programing languages).
OH NO! No worries here is what you can do to fix this problem.
hit command+spacebar to open up spotlight
type: activity monitor
hit enter
You should see this screen.
In the finder bar of activity monitor
type: Ruby ( or the programing language that your using)
Click quit process
Force quit and your done! See that was not so hard...
Cheers and happy coding,
Corey
Written by Corey Trombley
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Alternatively you can type "ps x" in terminal find ruby and then type "kill -9 <pid>" where <pid> is the number in the first column on the row of ruby (or whichever process you want).
Warning: that wouldn't let your process to execute any exit routines and just gets rid off the process. It should do the trick for WEBrick though. For safer quit strategy try "kill -3 <pid>"
@madgen Yeah that would be much faster.
