From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-03-03T04:59:58+09:00
Subject: Re: prob with daemon

On 02.03.2008 20:56, Jano Svitok wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Junkone <junkone1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> i am struggling with this daemon gem and cannot get it to work. any
>>  help is appreciated.
>>
>>  E:\TradingTools\Development\app\helpers>ruby myserver_control.rb start
>>  e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.9/lib/daemons/daemonize.rb:
>>  103:in `fork': the fork() function is unimplemente
>>  d on this machine (NotImplementedError)
>>         from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.9/lib/daemons/
>>  daemonize.rb:103:in `safefork'
>>         from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.9/lib/daemons/
>>  daemonize.rb:203:in `daemonize'
>>         from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.9/lib/daemons/
>>  application.rb:115:in `start_load'
>>         from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.9/lib/daemons/
>>  application.rb:236:in `start'
>>         from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.9/lib/daemons/
>>  controller.rb:69:in `run'
>>         from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.9/lib/
>>  daemons.rb:136:in `run'
>>         from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.9/lib/daemons/
>>  cmdline.rb:105:in `call'
>>         from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.9/lib/daemons/
>>  cmdline.rb:105:in `catch_exceptions'
>>         from e:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemons-1.0.9/lib/
>>  daemons.rb:135:in `run'
>>         from myserver_control.rb:6
>>
>>   # this is myserver_control.rb
>>
>>   require 'rubygems'        # if you use RubyGems
>>   require 'daemons'
>>
>>   Daemons.run('myserver.rb')
>>
>>   # this is myserver.rb
>>   # it does nothing really useful at the moment
>>
>>   loop do
>>     sleep(5)
>>   end
> 
> I see you are on windows - as the error message says, the fork is not
> implemented there.
> These are you options (maybe more):
> 1. use fork from the win32-process gem. see
> http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/707/README.html for caveats
> 2. remove the fork call from the daemons lib code
> 3. reuse code from mongrel_service and/or win32-service gems

4. use cygwin's Ruby.

	robert