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To run the Rails server, I use $rails server. It says 'To stop, click Ctrl+c'. I use Putty.

The questions are:

  1. Should I keep the terminal open always? Because if the server stops, my web page wouldn't work. With Apache I just used commands apachectl start/stop.

  2. What if I want to use a command? Should I stop the server, use command, and run again? Because in the same terminal I can't do enything if the server run.

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  • Well,you can start it in background or use some server like passenger, it's easy to use and convenient. – Andrey Saleba Aug 25 '16 at 04:12
  • How to start it in background? Like with Apache –  Aug 25 '16 at 04:31
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    To start rails server with apache as reverse proxy you need some application server to serve your ruby code. Check this link for guide how to set up it: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html – Andrey Saleba Aug 25 '16 at 04:36
  • No, I use Puma server. I mean, how to run Puma in background, like we do it with apache –  Aug 25 '16 at 20:28

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you can run it in background by writing

daemonize true

in your puma.rb file

To stop you need to find your running puma process

 ps aux | grep puma

then you need to kill the main process

 sudo kill -9 your process id

to start you need to type 

 puma -C config/puma.rb
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You can start a daemonized server by adding -d to your command. For instance:

rails server -d

To stop the server, you can kill it based on its process id:

kill $(cat tmp/pids/server.pid)
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Should I keep the terminal open always? Because if the server stops, my web page wouldn't work. With Apache I just used commands apachectl start/stop.

Yes, you should keep it open because if you Ctrl C it will stop the server. Another option is to run it in the background but I'm not sure how to do that in Putty.

What if I want to use a command? Should I stop the server, use command, and run again? Because in the same terminal I can't do enything if the server run.

Can you open another terminal window? If you have two terminal windows you can use one for running the server and another for other tasks.

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  • Ok, let's say you've developed a project and uploaded to a hosting. Where would you keep the terminal open? It seems stupid, why in apache is not like that? –  Aug 25 '16 at 04:23
  • Hosting in development and production are two very different scenarios. It usually easier to run in the terminal in development but you need something more robust for production. – kcdragon Aug 25 '16 at 04:47
  • What, for example? –  Aug 25 '16 at 20:28