# Ferret DRb on windows? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ferret\ **Created:** [August 27, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-drb-on-windows/113093 "2007-08-27T15:59:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neongrau)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-drb-on-windows/113093/1 "2007-08-27T15:59:47Z")
i’m running a bunch of proxybalanced mongrels on a windows server. and since the memory consumption of all those mongrels is getting too high i wanted to set up the DRb’ed ferret server. but script/ferret\_start doesn’t work and seems to be written for linux (unix) only. is there a way to run it on windows? ---
**Author:** ![neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neongrau)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-drb-on-windows/113093/2 "2007-08-27T16:23:41Z")
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:59:47PM +0200, neongrau \_\_ wrote: > i’m running a bunch of proxybalanced mongrels on a windows server. > and since the memory consumption of all those mongrels is getting too > high i wanted to set up the DRb’ed ferret server. > > but script/ferret\_start doesn’t work and seems to be written for linux > (unix) only. > > is there a way to run it on windows? yes, see there: [http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/](http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/) cheers, Jens – Jens Krämer [http://www.jkraemer.net/](http://www.jkraemer.net/) - Blog [http://www.omdb.org/](http://www.omdb.org/) - The new free film database ---
**Author:** ![neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neongrau)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-drb-on-windows/113093/3 "2007-08-27T16:29:33Z")
awesome! thanks alot! i was searching google like crazy and couldn’t find anything myself. ---
**Author:** ![neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neongrau)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-drb-on-windows/113093/4 "2007-11-15T17:36:27Z")
today i’ve upgraded to the latest trunk to use the new :page / :per\_page options. but since then i can’t start the service anymore ☹ Initializing FerretDaemon… Starting Ferret DRb server… c:/test\_app/script/ferret\_daemon:69:in `service_init' : undefined method`start’ for ActsAsFerret::Remote::Server:Class ( NoMethodError ) from c:/test\_app/script/ferret\_daemon:88:in `mainloop’ from c:/test\_app/script/ferret\_daemon:88 was there a change in the DRb part that breaks s.th. on windows? ---
**Author:** ![neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neongrau)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-drb-on-windows/113093/5 "2007-11-15T18:00:27Z")
ok, just tested svn rev. 257 (the one before the “unified drb server start/stop script by Peter J.” and that one works. ---
**Author:** ![neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neongrau)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-drb-on-windows/113093/6 "2008-06-13T17:19:53Z")
neongrau \_\_ wrote: > ok, just tested svn rev. 257 (the one before the “unified drb server > start/stop script by Peter J.” and that one works. Guys, I have been at this for 3 days now with no luck getting a DRb server going. I have a production site on a Windows box with Apache, 5 mongrels and using aaf rev. 257 (as suggested here) and ferret 0.11.4 (mswin32). I cannot even get ferret\_daemon going on the console. ruby script/ferret\_daemon -c -e production gives me Initializing FerretDaemon… Starting Ferret DRb server… script/ferret\_daemon:69:in `service_init': undefined method`start’ for ActsAsFe rret::Remote::Server:Class (NoMethodError) from script/ferret\_daemon:51:in `initialize' from script/ferret_daemon:87:in`new’ from script/ferret\_daemon:87 I have tried everything … or so it seems. Various versions of ferret and aaf have been installed, uninstalled, patched and burnt… no luck. Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you, Karthik ---
**Author:** ![neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neongrau)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-drb-on-windows/113093/7 "2008-06-13T17:56:00Z")
neongrau \_\_ wrote: > Karthik Reddy wrote: > > > Initializing FerretDaemon… > > Starting Ferret DRb server… > > script/ferret\_daemon:69:in `service_init': undefined method`start’ for > > ActsAsFe > > rret::Remote::Server:Class (NoMethodError) > > from script/ferret\_daemon:51:in `initialize' from script/ferret_daemon:87:in`new’ > > from script/ferret\_daemon:87 > > this looks like the error i got with any newer revision than 257 > > can you double check that you have that exact revison? > > i’m also using “ferret-0.11.5-mswin32” now. > > and “ruby 1.8.5 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 52) [i386-mswin32]” > (because i had issues with 1.8.6 and the official 1.8.5 has an earlier > patchlevel with a massive memory leak when using the ADO driver for > MSSQL). > > and since i’ve switched to using pure ASCII in my index it’s working > quite nicely Wow, thank you for that quick reponse there neongrau. I am using ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-mswin32], my database is on mysql. I was running “ferret-0.11.5-mswin32” before and have switched back to it now (after your reply). Definitely got revision 257 of aaf. Should I try updating ruby? How would I get to your patchlevel? Cheers - K ---
**Author:** ![neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neongrau)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-drb-on-windows/113093/8 "2008-06-13T17:33:44Z")
Karthik Reddy wrote: > Initializing FerretDaemon… > Starting Ferret DRb server… > script/ferret\_daemon:69:in `service_init': undefined method`start’ for > ActsAsFe > rret::Remote::Server:Class (NoMethodError) > from script/ferret\_daemon:51:in `initialize' from script/ferret_daemon:87:in`new’ > from script/ferret\_daemon:87 this looks like the error i got with any newer revision than 257 can you double check that you have that exact revison? i’m also using “ferret-0.11.5-mswin32” now. and “ruby 1.8.5 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 52) [i386-mswin32]” (because i had issues with 1.8.6 and the official 1.8.5 has an earlier patchlevel with a massive memory leak when using the ADO driver for MSSQL). and since i’ve switched to using pure ASCII in my index it’s working quite nicely ---
**Author:** ![neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neongrau](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neongrau)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-drb-on-windows/113093/9 "2008-06-13T18:25:26Z")
Karthik Reddy wrote: > Definitely got revision 257 of aaf. > thats really strange, i don’t remember that i did any modifications but > if you want i could mail what i currently have in my plugins dir. > Should I try updating ruby? How would I get to your patchlevel? > worth a try, just browse their ftp server, should be [ftp.ruby-lang.org](http://ftp.ruby-lang.org) maybe it has s.th. to do with the win32-service gem, which one do you have? (“win32-service-0.5.2-mswin32” is the one i got atm)