From: Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@...>
Date: 2006-06-07T05:15:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby App as a Windows Service?

Jim Freeze wrote:

> On 6/6/06, DEBAUN, STEVE [Seminis/2400] <steve.debaun@seminis.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I couldn't get win32-service to work.  I ended up using Firedaemon.
>>
>> If you use Firedaemon, you don't need to use RubyScript2Exe.  Just have
>> Firedaemon run: 'ruby c:\foo\bar.rb'
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> These machines don't have ruby installed. I supposed I could use AllInOne
> Ruby, but I thought RubyScript2Exe would be easier.
>
> Daniel
>
> I saw win32-service, but have no idea how to use it. Can you provide an
> example.

I want to second Daniel's suggestion to use win32-service.  If no one 
else comes up with a better example, you are welcome to download 
KirbyBase (www.netpromi.com/kirbybase_ruby.html) and check out an 
example usage.  In the distribution, I have a fairly rudimentary script 
that turns the KirbyBase server script into a Windows service using 
win32-service.  I have been running this process at my day job for 
several months now for a production application and it works 
flawlessly.  Hats off to Daniel and the win32 utilities team!

Jamey Cribbs