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On Jan 2, 2008 9:22 PM, Tim Perrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey All
>
> I was just wondering if anyone had tried deploying merb as a windows
> service? I am familiar with the sc.exe tool ( 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192
>   ) - do you think adding the correct paths and such to the merb bin
> will work? I am going to try this tomorrow but wondered what peoples
> thoughts were?
>

No, it wouldn't.

ruby.exe do not offer out of the box solution for this, you need
win32-service gem win32utils project:

gem install win32-service.

1 year ago I used that project to power mongrel_service. Found that
Rails+Mongrel+Ruby don't play nice on how windows process, specially
services work.

I needed to move from pure/pre-compiled ruby solution to custom build
solution using external executables for it.

You can unpack the original code of mongrel_service 0.1 to see how it
worked with Win32::Daemon class back then.

gem install mongrel_service -v '0.1'
gem unpack mongrel_service -v '0.1'

Now, you can check the 0.3.4 code that uses ServiceFB library and
FreeBASIC to build a Service-aware executable that act as connection
between ruby and SCM.

> Many thanks

HTH,
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