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Docker for Rails Developers
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Docker for Rails Developers

by Rob Isenberg
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 25m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Rails tmp/pids/server.pid Not Cleaned Up

For some reason, occasionally upon terminating the app with Compose (pressing Ctrl-C), the Rails server doesn’t seem to shut down cleanly, and its server.pid file—which Rails stores in tmp/pids/—isn’t deleted. This means that upon starting the app again with:

 $ ​​docker-compose​​ ​​up

you may find yourself confronted by the following error in the output:

 ...
 A server is already running. Check /usr/src/app/tmp/pids/server.pid
 ...

The existence of the pid file makes the Rails server starting up believe that there’s a server already running, so it won’t launch.

Rails saves the server.pid file in tmp/pids. Since we’re mounting our local app directory into the container, the file ends up in the ...

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