Mongrel service/win32 problems

hi,
i am working on my first ruby on rails app and it’s basically ready
for some serious testing. i’ve been using command-line mongrel as my
webserver for awhile, but as we need a slightly more permanent
version, i wanted to try out the win32 service version. after
installing all the most recent versions of the required gems (win32
flavour), a ‘mongrel_rails help’ results in:
Available commands are:

  • restart
  • start
  • stop
  • service::install
  • service::remove
    so yeah, it seems like service::start, stop and restart are all
    missing. i can’t call them. i can add and remove my app service a
    bunch of times, but whenver i try to call start it claims that
    Plugin /service::start does not exist in category /commands
    has anyone else experienced anything like this? am i just doing it
    wrong? any help would be much appreciated.

eric