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Linux Signal Trapping in Ruby

December 11, 2023

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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.

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