Stop and restart easily a rails server. http://waiting-for-dev.github.io/blog/2014/05/03/stop-and-restart-easily-a-rails-server/

rails_server_helper.bash

function rails() {
  if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
     if [ "$2" = "" ]; then
        RENV="development"
     else
        RENV="$2"
     fi
     rails server -d -e "$RENV"
     return 0
  elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
     if [ -f tmp/pids/server.pid ]; then
        kill $2 $(cat tmp/pids/server.pid)
        return 0
     else
        echo "It seems there is no server running or you are not in a rails project root directory"
        return 1
     fi
  elif [ "$1" = "restart" ]; then
     rails stop && rails start $2
  else
     command rails $@
  fi;
}