On Nov 21, 2007 4:56 AM, James Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
Is a bit more complicated than that, but as you said, is beyond mongrel scope ;-) > > > >> 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. > It does some funny things sometimes. And other weird ones since sometimes you cannot reproduce the failing procedure to report a bug :-P -- Luis Lavena Multimedia systems - Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
