On Feb 25, 12:59 ¨Βν¬ ΣεβαστιαΘυξηεςεγλεΌσεπ®®®ΐηοοημεναιμ®γονwrote: > Junkone wrote: > > :description > 'A custom service I wrote just for fun' > > :start_type => Service::AUTO_START, > > There's a comma missing after "fun'". > > HTH, > Sebastian > -- > NP: Explosions in the Sky - Remember Me As A Time Of Day > Jabber: sep... / jabber.org > ICQ: 205544826 thanks for pointing it out. i get new errors now. Is there anything that my executable should do in order to be a service. i have created services before with vb and have not experienced issues. bat file is a simple one having this statemetn. thin start -e production -p 3000 When i run it directly, it works. but i run it as part of the servicem, the start up fails with this error This is some service service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. My code for the service implementation is require "win32/service" include Win32 # Create a new service Service.create('some_service', nil, :service_type => Service::WIN32_OWN_PROCESS, :description => 'A custom service I wrote just for fun', :start_type => Service::AUTO_START, :error_control => Service::ERROR_NORMAL, :binary_path_name => 'E:\TradingTools\torontotrader \startServer.bat', :load_order_group => nil, :dependencies => nil, :service_start_name => 'LocalSystem', :password => nil, :display_name => 'This is some service' )