From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-04-20T03:19:34+09:00
Subject: Re: win32-service-0.6.1 using a Rails Model

david wrote:
> Windows 2000 SP4
> Ruby 1.8.6
> Rail 1.2.6
> 
> I'm trying to create a Rail application for our internal use to
> provide a one stop access to services. I'm currently trying to get the
> Server.status, Service.stop and Service.start to work through a model
> in Rails. The Service.* functions work well through Ruby itself, but
> seems to have problem through a Rails Model. I've been trying to
> display the status of the MySQL service.

<snip code>

> 
> The following error is posted to the development.log.
> 
> Processing ServicectlController#show (for 127.0.0.1 at 2008-04-19
> 11:53:46) [GET]
>   Session ID: d446bf0a6cad825dbf5d1a78e6853706
>   Parameters: {"action"=>"show", "controller"=>"servicectl"}
> 
> Win32::Service::Error (T):
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-service-0.6.1-x86-mswin32-60/
> lib/win32/service.rb:920:in `status'
>     C:/Shared/SourceCode/Rails/sandbox/app/models/servicectl.rb:14:in
> `servicestatus'

<snip>

The line number indicates that OpenService() function call failed, but 
I'm not sure why. I've forwarded this to the win32utils-devel list. I 
can only speculate at this point that it's something to do with the way 
it's interacting with WEBrick, but I'm not sure.

We'll keep you posted.

Regards,

Dan