BENI wrote: > I am trying to build an windows service ( WIN XP SP-2) using the > Win32-service package for ruby. > > This service is supposed to pull some stock data from yahoo site > every minute and print to screen. <snip> Is there anything in the log? Also, be sure to put your require's within the begin block. The last time someone reported a similar problem it turned out they were require'ing a custom library that wasn't in their $LOAD_PATH. I wonder if the same thing is happening with yahootickerpull.rb. Dan