How do I get 'puma' to start, automatically, when I run `rails server` (like Thin does)

Question

Normally, when you run rails server it starts Webrick. If you install the 'thin' gem, then 'thin' starts instead. I would like to do the same thing with the 'puma' server.

I see that the start command within railties (lib/rails/commands) calls super, but I can't find what the various options for 'super' are. I have also reviewed many references to Rails within 'thin'.

I found a Changelog entry entitled "Added Thin support to script/server. #488 [Bob Klosinski]" from Oct. of 2008, but that code area has changed significantly since that commit (a93ea88c0623b4f65af98c0eb55924c335bb3ac1).

If someone could direct me to the right section of code, that would be very helpful.

Answer 1

After some digging, I've found this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14911994/604526

To make Puma the default, paste this code into script/rails above require 'rails/commands':

require 'rack/handler'
Rack::Handler::WEBrick = Rack::Handler.get(:puma)

Puma is the default server now if you use rails s

rails s
=> Booting Puma
=> Rails 3.2.12 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
Connecting to database specified by database.yml
Puma 1.6.3 starting...
* Min threads: 0, max threads: 16
* Environment: development
* Listening on tcp://0.0.0.0:3000

Rails 4

With Rails 4 you simply have to add the puma-gem to the Gemfile. (Tested with Rails 4.0.2 and Puma 2.6.0)