# Ruby Daemons on Windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-daemons-on-windows/157447>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 11, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-daemons-on-windows/157447 "2009-01-11T13:07:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![sa125](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@sa125](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sa125)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-daemons-on-windows/157447/1 "2009-01-11T13:07:30Z")

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Hello -

I’m trying to use the daemons library to get a background process  
running, and all this is on a windows (xp) machine. I get an error  
saying the fork() function isn’t implemented on this  
machine(NotImplementedError), which obviously makes sense since this  
isn’t unix. However, is there a similar library that’ll work for  
windows? I’d appreciate a simple example if there is a way to accomplish  
this.