From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2007-09-30T08:07:49+09:00
Subject: Re: How to create a windows startup app

I. P. wrote:
> |James Britt|
> 
> JB> at boot time, try wrapping it in a .bat file:
> JB> REM myapp.bat
> JB> c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe c:\path\to\your_app.rb
> And in this case you'd probably need Hstart utility
> (http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/hstart.html)
> which hides flickering console window.
> 


If one is using Curt Hibb's "one-click" installer version of Ruby, you 
can use the .rbw extension on the script and Ruby should execute with no 
visible cmd shell window.


The times I've had Ruby code execute at Windows launch I did not often 
use persistent processes; seeing the DOS box come up was a nice 
indicator that the code was actually running, and then seeing that it 
was not hanging.



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