Offline/local install of mongrel_service

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I am trying to install mongrel_service 0.3.4 on a server that does not
have any outside internet connection. It has ruby 1.8.6 and I have been
installing gems by copying the source into
…\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems and then doing a gem install --local
using the .gem file. I was able to find and install all the gem
dependencies of mongrel_service through rubyforge except win32-service
which required version 0.5.2, which was not readily available through
rubyforge’s win32 utilities page
(http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=85). I ended up finding the gem
win32-service-0.5.2-mswin32.gem I needed through google
(http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/15355/win32-service-0.5.2-mswin32.gem)
but I suspect if might have been corrupted. I installed this gem, then
installed mongrel_service. After installing mongrel_service there is no
mongrel_service.exe in …\ruby\bin. Does anyone have any suggestions
as to how I can successfully install mongrel_service?

thanks!

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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Zainab M. [email protected]
wrote:

(http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/15355/win32-service-0.5.2-mswin32.gem)
but I suspect if might have been corrupted. I installed this gem, then
installed mongrel_service. After installing mongrel_service there is no
mongrel_service.exe in …\ruby\bin. Does anyone have any suggestions
as to how I can successfully install mongrel_service?

Hello Zainab,

If you don’t have internet access, then will be really hard for you to
fulfill all the dependencies.

if win32utils project administrator decided to hide previous releases,
the files are still there, as you found. The gem is not corrupted.

The mongrel_service executable will be copied automatically the first
time you install (with service::install) a Rails application.

So:

  1. download manually the following gems (you can use wget or enter the
    url in your browser)

http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/cgi_multipart_eof_fix-2.5.0.gem
http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60.gem
http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/gem_plugin-0.2.3.gem
http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/mongrel_service-0.3.4-i386-mswin32.gem
http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/win32-service-0.5.2-mswin32.gem

  1. install with gem install --local in the same order I listed above.

  2. install your rails application as service:

mongrel_rails service::install (all the params here)

  1. Done, you can now start the service with “net start …” and “net
    stop …”

HTH,

Luis L.
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