From: Assaph Mehr <assaph@...>
Date: 2006-02-18T21:57:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby scripts as Win32-Service

Hi Xavier,

> Hey I know practically nothing about Windows. Could I follow those
> instructions to have WEBrick always running an easily deploy a simple
> management Rails tool for internal usage?

Few comments:
- It's very much possible to do so. I personally prefer cygwin's
cygrunsrv, but the above instructions work flawlessly.
- The service created is not a "real" win32 service - it doesn't
respond to TERM signals and the only way to stop it is to either kill
the process or build a stop command in your app.
- If you're on windows, why not go with InstantRails?
(http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/)

Cheers,
Assaph