Another (very) quick one today! For years I would stop and start my Rails server after making changes like bundling a new gem. Until I discovered that Rails ships with a command for making this easier!

```
bin/rails restart
```

This works by doing [`touch tmp/restart.txt`] under the hood. I think [spring] watches this file and reboots the application when it's been changed.

[`touch tmp/restart.txt`]: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18965/files
[spring]: https://github.com/rails/spring

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