I have to type: rails server, each time I want it to be running in the
background. How to keep it started always in the background?
Is this a command that I have to type in the command prompt? I am using
Windows 7.
hey Rubyist, those are web servers. You need to configure the web
server.
sayuj
Webrick is the default web server that runs when you type rails server.
When you’re running it in development mode, it will reload any code
changes
that you might happen to make on each request, but it won’t be able to
pick
up changes to configuration files and Ruby gems that are loaded only at
server startup time. Furthermore, if you’re just learning Ruby / Rails,
you’re going to make a lot of mistakes, and having the web server
console
output to refer to whenever something blows up is going to be useful.
Having your server running in the background is going to take all that
away
from you.
When I’m working on a project, I keep a server up and running in its own
terminal window pretty much all the time and restart it whenever I need
to
pick up a configuration change.