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How to kill an instance of rails server that is running. Useful when you get the error message that says that address localhost:3000 is being used somewhere else (i.e. the rails server did not shut down properly). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4473229/rails-server-says-port-already-used-how-to-kill-that-process
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kill_rails_server_command
//On any command line:
lsof -wni tp:3000
//You will see a column labeled "PID". Get that number.
kill -9 PID#HERE //e.g. kill -9 704
//If this fails, RESTART machine => has worked before
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