win-service-manager¶ ↑

by Ryan Castro (Forked from https://github.com/raggi/srvany_manager)
http://github.com/ryancastro/win-service-manager/

Install, configure, and manage Microsoft Windows services from Ruby. Using Microsoft’s SRVany.exe from the MS Resource Toolkit, run a Ruby script as a Windows service.

• Turn any application into a Windows service using srvany.exe. Manage existing services.

• Depending on how your Ruby process launches (Like rails, which uses a batch file), stopping the service may stop SRVany.exe, but leave the child batch running.

#Create a new manager
sm = WinServiceManager.new(File.expand_path("srvany.exe"))
#Creat a new service.  Name, exe, arguments, directory to run from, Service description
sm.create('foo service', 'c:\ruby200\bin\rubyw', 'my_awesome_daemon.rb', 'c:\daemon', "This is my Daemon Service" )
sm.start('foo service')
sm.stop('foo service')
sm.delete('foo service')
puts sm.list

require 'win-service-manager'
service = WinServiceManager.new('c:\mc_ruby\srvany.exe')
service.create('Awesome Rails 4 service', 'c:\ruby200\bin\ruby', 'c:\ruby200\bin\rails server -e production', 'c:\projects\awesomerails', 'Rails 4 Service Description')

• To create services, download srvany.exe from Microsoft Resource Kit Tools and provide its path to WinServiceManager. Last time I checked, it was here: www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17657

• gem install win-service-manager

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2008 James Tucker

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