From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T02:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Webrick:Daemonize under Windows

On Nov 15, 3:45 am, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2007, at 22:55 , Christian Kerth wrote:
>
> > Hey!
>
> > How do i run Webrick as Daemon under Windows, since the fork() command
> > is not supported?
>
> > Are Threads an Option? Can somebody give me some input on this?
>
> You want to run as a service instead.  I think win32-service does this.

Yes. It's actually bundled up for you already in the 'ruby-services'
package. Download the zip file, unzip it and read the instructions.
There are also services for fri and rubygems' gem server.*

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=85&release_id=8222

Regards,

Dan

* Which I will likely need to update once rubygems 0.9.5 is released.