From: ahappydeath <silbermm@...>
Date: 2008-10-03T01:38:47+09:00
Subject: using win32-service

I am trying to create a windows service with Ruby. I have successfully
created the service ( I can open up the services and see the service I
created ) but when I try to start it I get the error message:
                            "Could not start A Ruby Service(the name I
gave it) on Local Computer.
                              Error 1053: The service did not respond
to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

I have the executable of the service pointed to the full path of "ruby
c:\service.rb"  and the contents of service.rb are:

require 'win32/daemon'
include Win32

class Daemon

  def service_main()
		while running?
			sleep 3
			File.open("c:\\test.log", "a") { |f| f.puts "service is running"}
		end
  end

def service_stop
     exit!
 end

end

Daemon.mainloop


any ideas what I'm doing wrong?!!!