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Chris Oliver
Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.
About This Episode
Catching signals from the operating system like Ctrl-C can be very useful for safely shutting down your Ruby process. In this lesson, we'll see how the Rails server catches Ctrl-C and gracefully shuts down.