Forum: Mongrel problem starting mongrel in windows

Hi everybody,
I was trying to get rails applications deployed in my pc(windows vista), 
and I had some problem trying to start mongrel web server, and I have no 
clue as to how and why it is not working.
I have installed ruby, rubygems, rails, mysql and mongrel, the last 
three as rubygems. I could run the 'rails' command to and create an 
application with the folder structure and all. But when I tried to start 
the mongrel, I get the following error message.

F:\ROR\sources\hello>mongrel_rails start -d
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in 
`require': no such file to load -- win32/service (LoadError)
        from 
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.
rb:27:in `require'
        from 
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel_service-0.1/lib/mongrel_service/init.rb:5
        from 
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel_service-0.1/lib/mongrel_service/init.rb:27:in 
`require'
        from 
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in 
`require'
        from 
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gem_plugin-0.2.3/lib/gem_plugin.rb:134:in 
`load'
        from 
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:195:in 
`each'
        from 
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:195:in 
`each'
        from 
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gem_plugin-0.2.3/lib/gem_plugin.rb:112:in 
`load'
        from 
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-java/bin/mongrel_rails:278
        from 
C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-java/bin/mongrel_rails:19:in 
`load'
        from c:\ruby\jruby-1.1.3\bin\mongrel_rails:19


Also, is there any way to keep mongrel live and running?? I tried to 
install it as a service as mentioned in the website with the following 
command: gem install mongrel_service and it mentioned that 1 gem was 
installed, but I don't see any service with the name "mongrel" or 
"mongrel_rails" running in the list of services. I am new with mongrel 
so please do help me.

Thanks,
suman gurung

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:56 PM, suman gurung(hotmail)
<gurung_suman@hotmail.com> wrote:
> C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require': no such file to load -- win32/service (LoadError)
>         from
> C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.
> rb:27:in `require'
>         from
> C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel_service-0.1/lib/mongrel_service/init.rb:5
>         from
> C:/ruby/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel_service-0.1/lib/mongrel_service/init.rb:27:in
> `require'

To keep it short:

You're using JRuby, not Matz Ruby (MRI) so:

mongrel_service gem will not work, since it depends on win32-service,
which is only Windows (not Java).
You're using a old version of mongrel_service (0.1) which definitely
will not work as expected with latest Rails and Mongrel.

Daemonize (-d) otpion requires fork functionality, which is not
available in Windows (neither MRI or JRuby or any Ruby for Windows
implementation).

>
>
> Also, is there any way to keep mongrel live and running?? I tried to install
> it as a service as mentioned in the website with the following command: gem
> install mongrel_service and it mentioned that 1 gem was installed, but I
> don't see any service with the name "mongrel" or "mongrel_rails" running in
> the list of services. I am new with mongrel so please do help me.
>

mongrel_rails service::install --help

That is clearly documented in mongrel site:

http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/wiki/Win32

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Thanks, Luis, for making me see that. Indeed I was using jruby's gems to
install all the applications. When I installed anything using the gem
command, it was the gem under the jruby folder that was being executed. 
I
had to changed the precedence of the entries of jruby and ruby in the
path(environment variable) and do all the installs again and mongrel 
runs
smooth.

great!!!

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From: "Luis Lavena" <luislavena@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 3:08 PM
To: <mongrel-users@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [Mongrel] problem starting mongrel in windows