# How to kill / abort rails on windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-kill-abort-rails-on-windows/167904>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 13, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-kill-abort-rails-on-windows/167904 "2009-05-13T21:45:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-kill-abort-rails-on-windows/167904/1 "2009-05-13T21:45:52Z")

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Hi,

I have a number of rails servers running on windows as a single  
service (written in C#) and would like to terminate all processes when  
the service is stopped.

The windows C# way is to use Process.abort(), but it does not seem to  
kill all processes.

Another way is to have a controller method perform a Kernel::exit(1)  
or an abort(). These terminate the thread, but do not kill the server,  
at least not mongrel or webrick.

Maybe the answer is obvious, but I am not really a windows person.

Any ideas?

Thanks,  
Guus.