Rails daemon

Start Rails server as a daemon and kill the process once you're done

Instead of 
        rails server
do:
        rails s -d

then to kill it, find which process is using the port:
        lsof -i :3000

finally, kill the process:
        kill -9 $(lsof -i :3000 -t)

Create aliases:
        alias startRails='rails server -d'
        alias stopRails='kill -9 $(lsof -i :3000 -t)'

** extra
Find what processes are running:
ps aux|grep nameofprogram

** run any process as a background job by postfixing the execution command with &
user 'jobs' to see whats running in the background
then to bring into foreground: fg %1

** some jobs output completion status to screen. Clockwork will be very inteerruptive. 
To print those putputs to a file instead of the screen:
bundle exec clockwork config/clock.rb 2>&1 >>/var/www/applicationname/log/clockwork-output-log &
2>&1 >>/pathtologfile &