Win32-service 0.6.0

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Hi all,

The Win32Utils Team is very pleased to announce the release of
win32-service 0.6.0. This release features lots of changes. Note that
some of the changes are not backwards compatible. See below.

Special thanks goes out to Kevin Burge for a nice patch to the Daemon
class that greatly improved its responsiveness with regards to event
handling, especially service_stop. :slight_smile:

= What is it?
A library for creating and controlling Services (i.e. daemons) on MS
Windows.

= What’s new?

  • The Service control class is now pure Ruby. The Daemon class is still
    C, however. That may change in the future. This means the windows-pr
    library is now a prerequisite.

  • The Service.new method has been altered in a way that is not backwards
    compatible. It is now the same as Service.create.

  • The Service.start method now properly handles arguments to the
    Daemon#service_main method.

  • The Daemon source code is now separate from the Service control class
    source code. That means you must require them separately, as needed,
    i.e. ‘win32/service’ vs ‘win32/daemon’.

  • The Daemon class should be much more responsive to service events now,
    especially service_stop. (Thanks Kevin)

  • Added the Daemon.mainloop method as a shortcut for
    Daemon.new.mainloop.

  • The Daemon class now redirects STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR to the NUL
    device if they’re still associated with a terminal when the service
    starts. This should help prevent Errno::EBADF errors.

  • The Service.services class method now supports the group parameter for
    versions of Ruby built with older compilers, i.e. it will now work with
    the one-click Ruby installer.

  • The Service.getdisplayname method was changed to
    Service.get_display_name. An alias has been provided for backwards
    compatibility.

  • The Service.getservicename method was changed to
    Service.get_service_name. An alias has been provided for backwards
    compatibility.

  • Added the Service.config_info method.

  • The Service.create and Service.configure methods now allow you to set
    failure actions, failure commands, and reset/retry periods.

  • Improved test suite.

  • Changed ‘tdaemon.rb’, ‘tdaemon_ctl.rb’ and ‘service_test.rb’ to
    ‘demo_daemon.rb’, ‘demo_daemon_ctl.rb’ and ‘demo_services.rb’,
    respectively.

  • Some refactoring and updates to the demo daemon and demo daemon
    controller examples.

  • The Win32Service struct is now ServiceInfo.

  • ServiceError is now Service::Error.

  • DaemonError is now Daemon::Error.

  • Some documentation improvements, corrections and updates.

= Where can I get it?
gem install win32-service

You can also find it on the RAA at
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32-service/

Or visit the project page at http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/

Enjoy!

The Win32Utils Team