From: Jatinder Singh [mailto:jatinder.saundh / gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 3:29 PM > From a ruby program I would like to start another process which should > continue to run even after the parent process dies. > Is there any way I could achive this? [...] > 3. Daemons module(support for POSIX systems) can be used for creating > daemons, but only on UNIX systems. > http://rubyforge.org/projects/daemons/. Windows has daemon-like concept named "service". There is win32-service module (inside win32utils project) for working with services. Hope this helps. V.