Luis Lavena wrote: > On Nov 21, 2007 3:18 AM, James Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yeah this is an unfortunate bug with the way that 'bin' files are setup on >> windows. In particular, you can't call exec on a text file containing >> nothing but ruby. The solution is to add ".bat" or ".cmd" to the binary name >> in the offending call to system / exec, lead it with a call to ruby. >> > > this is the way system() works. a shame :-P
It is actually possible to make it work: * Implement a program which scans for, and runs any shebang on the given argument (roughly emulating execve). * set PATHEXT+=. * Associate extensionless files with the program you wrote for step 1. Although that's well beyond the scope of mongrel herself. > >> It's probably worth noting at this point that the "-d" option doesn't work >> either, so I am not sure the current cluster commands will work on windows. > > Yep, I keep telling this over and over, no mongrel_cluster for windows. > With regard to fork, IIRC win32-process adds this functionality. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users