# New way to deploy a Rails application on Windows as a servic

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-way-to-deploy-a-rails-application-on-windows-as-a-servic/137582>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [May 14, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-way-to-deploy-a-rails-application-on-windows-as-a-servic/137582 "2008-05-14T11:38:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![jedi\_aka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jedi\_aka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jedi_aka)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-way-to-deploy-a-rails-application-on-windows-as-a-servic/137582/1 "2008-05-14T11:38:08Z")

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This just came up on [SourceForge.net](http://SourceForge.net)

Its an installer that enables you to run a rail application on a window  
server as a service.

You can start and stop it, and it auto-starts on reboot.  
It only requires a working version of RoR.

Its called windows rails app launcher.

> **[Windows Rails App launcher](https://windowsrailsapp.sourceforge.net/)**
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> Your page description here ...

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**Author:** ![jedi\_aka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jedi\_aka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jedi_aka)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-way-to-deploy-a-rails-application-on-windows-as-a-servic/137582/2 "2008-05-14T13:26:56Z")

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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Jedi Obiwan  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> [http://windowsrailsapp.sourceforge.net/](http://windowsrailsapp.sourceforge.net/)

Nice!

A few caveats:

It requires you have previously installed dotNET (seems 2.0 is the one  
used). So you cannot drop it into a barebones setup without it.

It install as unique service, but I don’t see a way that can get  
several services install/start from it.

So I can compare it to a kind of crippled version of what  
mongrel\_service do, of course without the XML config file and the MSI  
installer.

In any case, is good have alternatives!

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