# Error when install Mongrel as a Windows service

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-install-mongrel-as-a-windows-service/148767>\
**Category:** Mongrel\
**Created:** [September 16, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-install-mongrel-as-a-windows-service/148767 "2008-09-16T23:01:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![xiaoshimei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/9fc348/32.png) [@xiaoshimei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xiaoshimei)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-install-mongrel-as-a-windows-service/148767/1 "2008-09-16T23:01:11Z")

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I have Ruby and Rails 2.1.1 installed, then I installed mongrel 1.1.5.  
Now I want to install mongrel as a service. I downloaded and installed  
mongrel\_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem. After all these, I followed the  
instructions to install it as service by running the command below, but  
got an error.

C:\ruby\>mongrel\_rails service::install -N BuildDashboard -c “c:\Build  
Dashboard” -p 4000 -e development

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel\_service-0.3.3-mswin32/lib/mongrel\_service/init.rb:140:in  
`initialize’:

wrong number of arguments (0 for 1) (ArgumentError)

```
    from

```

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel\_service-0.3.3-mswin32/lib/mongrel\_service/init.rb:140:in  
`new’

```
    from

```

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel\_service-0.3.3-mswin32/lib/mongrel\_service/init.rb:140:in  
`run’

```
    from

```

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/bin/…/lib/mongrel/command.rb:212:in  
`run’

```
    from

```

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mingw32/bin/mongrel\_rails:281

```
    from c:/ruby/bin/mongrel_rails:16:in `load'

    from c:/ruby/bin/mongrel_rails:16

```

Thanks for any help.

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**Author:** ![xiaoshimei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/9fc348/32.png) [@xiaoshimei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xiaoshimei)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-install-mongrel-as-a-windows-service/148767/2 "2008-09-17T01:26:27Z")

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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Sophie Su [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I have Ruby and Rails 2.1.1 installed, then I installed mongrel 1.1.5.  
> Now I want to install mongrel as a service. I downloaded and installed  
> mongrel\_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem. After all these, I followed the  
> instructions to install it as service by running the command below, but  
> got an error.

Did you install mongrel\_service using RubyGems locally or remote?

If you downloaded the gem and installed locally then the win32/service  
dependency will not be fulfilled.

mongrel\_service requires a specific version of that win32-service gem

> = 0.5.2 and less than 0.6, since that version introduced some  
> incompatibilities that require a lot of code change in the plugin.

## – Luis L. AREA 17

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**Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-install-mongrel-as-a-windows-service/148767/3 "2008-09-17T19:07:58Z")

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Thanks very much for that information. I installed mongrel service  
locally. I didn’t know it caused the service not work. My employer  
blocked lots of internet sites, so I was not able to install mongrel  
remotely from the office. I took my laptop home and did the remote  
installation from home. Now it works. Thanks again.

Luis L. wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Sophie Su [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > I have Ruby and Rails 2.1.1 installed, then I installed mongrel 1.1.5.  
> > Now I want to install mongrel as a service. I downloaded and installed  
> > mongrel\_service-0.3.3-mswin32.gem. After all these, I followed the  
> > instructions to install it as service by running the command below, but  
> > got an error.
> 
> Did you install mongrel\_service using RubyGems locally or remote?
> 
> If you downloaded the gem and installed locally then the win32/service  
> dependency will not be fulfilled.
> 
> mongrel\_service requires a specific version of that win32-service gem
> 
> > = 0.5.2 and less than 0.6, since that version introduced some  
> > incompatibilities that require a lot of code change in the plugin.
> 
> –  
> Luis L.  
> AREA 17