How to Use Same Terminal Window After Using "Rails Server" Command

Terminal command rails server

Yes when you use rails server or rails s the WEBrick server starts and keeps running it in the terminal tab you ran it on(till you interrupt it).

In Terminal Ctrl + C is used to kill/break/interrupt any process only

$ not showing means there is a process already running in that terminal and therefore you have to open a new terminal tab(Ctrl + Shift + T) and work there or break the existing ongoing process to get the $ and work in the present tab.

This also might help you out

http://help.codeschool.com/discussions/rails-for-zombies-2/225-after-i-enter-rails-server-on-the-command-line-the-command-line-doesnt-reappear

In other words you ideally can't or actually shouldn't use the terminal in which the server is running on, but anyways if you DO want to then this SO thread should help you

How to use same terminal window after using "rails server" command?

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Terminal won't allow me to enter command after rails server any answer please

Probably if you started your webrick, your server is now running and listening on http://localhost:3000. To see it, simply open a browser and point to that address.

If you want to stop the server (and enter other commands) as you seem to want to do, press ctrl + c to kill the server

Inputting Terminal Commands When Running a Rails Server

Usually you will just start a second Terminal window or tab and run the commands your book mentions in there. It will use the same database, but not the same process your server is running in.

Single custom terminal command to open multiple windows with different things inside

You can use tmux for these kind of staff. For example the example below will create 5 windows(which are tabs), each named with the first parametr after -n and then executed.

#!/bin/sh
tmux new-session -d -s hawkhost

tmux new-window -t hawkhost:1 -n 'vim' 'vim'
tmux new-window -t hawkhost:2 -n 'bundle' 'bundle exec guard'
tmux new-window -t hawkhost:3 -n 'rails1' 'rails console'
tmux new-window -t hawkhost:4 -n 'rails2' 'rails server'
tmux new-window -t hawkhost:5 -n 'irc' 'irsii'

tmux select-window -t hawkhost:1
tmux -2 attach-session -t hawkhost

Look here for more information about this:

http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/07/02/tmux-%E2%80%93-the-terminal-multiplexer-part-2/#tmux-shell-scripting

In tmux panes are arbitary windows, and windows are actually tabs.

Rails Server is not finishing inside terminal

With programs run from the terminal, they will run there unless they stop or have a daemon option. When you press ctrl-c, the rails webbrick server stops, so of course localhost won't show anything.

When the server is sitting there, it's waiting for a user to visit the site. It won't render views, for example, unless there's a request to render views.

If you want to run the webserver while still using the same terminal window, you need to run rails s as a daemon (background process). Instead, run the command as rails s -d which will "detach" the server process.

On a side-note, why not open multiple terminal windows, if your operating system has a GUI/Window Manager. I normally keep three terminal windows open to run the server, make git commits, check rake routes, etc.

Related Question: Running Webrick server in background?

Unpause a rails server that was paused in a different terminal window

You can not easily move a process to a new tty. The easiest solution would be to start it in a screen session, detach screen and then resume in the new terminal.