Restart Rails server automatically after every change in controllers

Question

It should not be necessary to restart Rails server after any normal change. However, when I make little changes on my app controllers, they aren't applied if I don't restart the server. Even if I wrote bad code and made errors intentionally, the old error persists. How can I change that or verify that's well set up?

I have in config/environment/development.rb file :

config.cache_classes = false

This didn't work for me.

UDPATE 1:

development.rb

    Rails.application.configure do
  # Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb.

  # In the development environment your application's code is reloaded on
  # every request. This slows down response time but is perfect for development
  # since you don't have to restart the web server when you make code changes.
  config.cache_classes = false

  # Do not eager load code on boot.
  config.eager_load = false

  # Show full error reports and disable caching.
  config.consider_all_requests_local       = true
  config.action_controller.perform_caching = false

  # Don't care if the mailer can't send.
  config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false

  # Print deprecation notices to the Rails logger.
  config.active_support.deprecation = :log

  # Raise an error on page load if there are pending migrations.
  config.active_record.migration_error = :page_load

  # Debug mode disables concatenation and preprocessing of assets.
  # This option may cause significant delays in view rendering with a large
  # number of complex assets.
  config.assets.debug = true

  # Asset digests allow you to set far-future HTTP expiration dates on all assets,
  # yet still be able to expire them through the digest params.
  config.assets.digest = true

  # Adds additional error checking when serving assets at runtime.
  # Checks for improperly declared sprockets dependencies.
  # Raises helpful error messages.
  config.assets.raise_runtime_errors = true

  # Raises error for missing translations
  # config.action_view.raise_on_missing_translations = true
end

Answer 1

You can use nodemon for auto restarting your old rails applications.

1) Install nodemon.

sudo npm install -g nodemon

2) Create nodemon.json file on root dir and configure it

{
  "ignore": [
    ".git",
    "node_modules/**/node_modules"
  ],
  "watch": [
    "app/controllers/",
    "app/models/",
    "app/assets/",
    "config/",
    "db/"
  ],
  "ext": "rb yml js css scss"
}

3) Create rails.sh file on root dir to start rails application using nodemon.

kill -9 `cat tmp/pids/server.pid`
echo "APP READY!!!"
echo "Ruby on Rails"
rails s -d

4) Give permission to rails.sh file.

sudo chmod +x rails.sh

5) Start server using sh command.

nodemon -L --exec "./rails.sh"

Note: Steps verified on mac machine. different os may have different command or configuration.