Re: Ruby App as a Windows Service?

Ruby
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I couldn’t get win32-service to work. I ended up using Firedaemon.

If you use Firedaemon, you don’t need to use RubyScript2Exe. Just have
Firedaemon run: ‘ruby c:\foo\bar.rb’

sd

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On 6/6/06, DEBAUN, STEVE [Seminis/2400] [email protected]
wrote:

I couldn’t get win32-service to work. I ended up using Firedaemon.

If you use Firedaemon, you don’t need to use RubyScript2Exe. Just have
Firedaemon run: ‘ruby c:\foo\bar.rb’

These machines don’t have ruby installed. I supposed I could use
AllInOne
Ruby, but I thought RubyScript2Exe would be easier.

Daniel

I saw win32-service, but have no idea how to use it. Can you provide an
example.

Thanks

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Jim F. wrote:

These machines don’t have ruby installed. I supposed I could use AllInOne
Ruby, but I thought RubyScript2Exe would be easier.

Daniel

I saw win32-service, but have no idea how to use it. Can you provide an
example.

I want to second Daniel’s suggestion to use win32-service. If no one
else comes up with a better example, you are welcome to download
KirbyBase (www.netpromi.com/kirbybase_ruby.html) and check out an
example usage. In the distribution, I have a fairly rudimentary script
that turns the KirbyBase server script into a Windows service using
win32-service. I have been running this process at my day job for
several months now for a production application and it works
flawlessly. Hats off to Daniel and the win32 utilities team!

Jamey C.