Ruby on Rails on Windows XP CTRL+C in console not stopping mongrel

Question

I am currently in the process of learning Ruby on Rails. I have been following the Learning Rails podcast and screencasts.

I've run into a problem, well more of an annoyance. Every time the screencast has me kill the mongrel server I am forced to close the console window because CTRL+C isnt killing it as it should. I then have to open a new console window, navigate to my rails app and issue a 'ruby script/server' command to restart it.

What I am looking for is possibly a reason for this, a way to fix it or other suggestions to make this process faster and/or less annoying. Or even possibly a batch file or shortcut to open a cmd window right to where I need it?

Answer 1

I have the same problem on Windows as well, so can't help you in fixing the Ctrl+C issue. But, I can point you towards Windows PowerToys' Open Command Window Here - it adds "Open Command Window Here" to your Explorer window, it's a requirement for development (of any sort) on Windows machines.

Answer 2

If you start mongrel a little different like this:

$ cd myrailsapp
$ mongrel_rails start

then you can stop it like this:

$ mongrel_rails stop

You can get more info here. This might be interesting to: Mongrel as a service

Answer 3

I believe this can happen if you are catching Exception and not re raising it. SIG-INT would be caught there and ultimately not kill the process.

Answer 4

Use Ctrl+Pause/Break instead. It will stop the server.

Answer 5

It's a known issue and here is the patch:https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2088-mongrel-not-being-stopped-with-ctrl-c-under-windows

Answer 6

check your rails version and use ctrl+c+paus/breal for 2.3.2

ctrl+c for 2.1.2