From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-01-31T03:48:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby app as windows service?

> i was looking for some help on getting a ruby console app installed as a
> service on a windows machine.  i haven't seen anything on the web sites
> about this, so i though i'd ask!  has anyone done this before?  is it
> possible?

Interesting you bring this up, though I have nothing of substance to offer.
I was thinking about this recently. I've written a Windows service in Delphi
before, so I'm familiar with the structure, although Delphi provides some
libs around the API calls.

I was thinking it'd probably be faster to find/build a native .exe for the
service portion, and have it execute the Ruby interpreter. At one time,
Microsoft had such a wrapper .exe that would make any program a service, I
haven't checked that out in a while, so I don't know if that is an option.
It was distributed in their SDK or something like that -- a non-supported
little dealy.

I've been wanting something like this so I could run a Ruby cron dameon as a
service -- I'm not thrilled with AT and Task Scheduler (the former not
enough scheduling flexibility and the latter must be GUI driven, I think).

Anyway, just trying to propel the thread in case a solution is uncovered.

Chris