How to regain control of the command prompt after starting a Rails server on Windows

Question

I know in Unix if you start the server like this:

rails server &

and after starting the server, you still have the same cmd window available to you. But on Windows this doesn't seem to work. Can I do something similar in Windows?

Answer 1

Maybe this :

start rails server

Your question has also been investigated on SuperUser and ServerFault , with no clear cut answer as far as I can tell. The start command seems to be the closest thing, if the scenario is that you're hacking away at the command prompt and you need to start something up and have it out of your way.

Answer 2

I am using grails, so not many ideas about ruby.But I regain control using ctrl+c or ctrl+d .

Hope that helps!!

Answer 3

Run server with deamon in windows :

rails server -d

or 

rails s -d

it will start rails server in background.