Start Multiple Servers With a Bash Script

Sometimes when running an application, you might need multiple servers locally. Especially with Rails apps, you might need a mysql server or redis server, etc.

It would be great if we could just run one bash command to start these services but it can be complicated if we need multiple terminal windows. This is where gnome-terminal can be useful!

First step is to install gnome-terminal if you do not already have it installed:

sudo apt-get update