# Running drb as a windows service

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-drb-as-a-windows-service/187232>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 20, 2010, 9:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-drb-as-a-windows-service/187232 "2010-04-20T09:33:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin\_DeMello](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@Martin\_DeMello](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martin_DeMello)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-drb-as-a-windows-service/187232/1 "2010-04-20T09:33:28Z")

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I’d like to run drb as a service, so that when windows starts up  
there’s a drb process there and listening for input. Has anyone done  
something like this?

martin

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**Author:** ![Martin\_DeMello](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@Martin\_DeMello](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martin_DeMello)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 11:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-drb-as-a-windows-service/187232/2 "2010-04-20T11:19:25Z")

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Martin DeMello wrote:

> I’d like to run drb as a service, so that when windows starts up  
> there’s a drb process there and listening for input. Has anyone done  
> something like this?

Maybe [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32-service](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32-service) ? (Never used it.)