Running a Ruby Program as a Windows Service?

Question

Is it possible to run a ruby application as a Windows Service? I see that there is a related question which discusses running a Java Application as a Windows Service, how c

Answer 1

Check out the following library: Win32Utils. You can create a simple service that you can start/stop/restart at your leisure. I'm currently using it to manage a Mongrel instance for a Windows hosted Rails app and it works flawlessly.