From: ahappydeath <silbermm@...>
Date: 2008-10-03T02:18:46+09:00
Subject: Re: using win32-service

On Oct 2, 12:35 pm, ahappydeath <silbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?!!!

also maybe i should mention... I just installed SP3