On Oct 2, 12:35 ¨Βν¬ αθαππωδεατΌσιμβε®®®ΐηναιμ®γονΎ χςοτεΊ
> I am trying to create a windows service with Ruby. I have successfully
> created the service ( I can open up the services and see the service I
> created ) but when I try to start it I get the error message:
> "Could not start A Ruby Service(the name I
> gave it) on Local Computer.
> Error 1053: The service did not respond
> to the start or control request in a timely fashion"
>
> I have the executable of the service pointed to the full path of "ruby
> c:\service.rb"  ¨Βξδ τθγοξτεξτσ οζ σεςφιγε®ςβ αςεΊ
>
> require 'win32/daemon'
> include Win32
>
> class Daemon
>
> def service_main()
> while running?
> sleep 3
> File.open("c:\\test.log",a") { |f| f.puts "service is running"}
> end
> end
>
> def service_stop
>  ¨Βψιτ΅
>  ¨Βξδ
>
> end
>
> Daemon.mainloop
>
> any ideas what I'm doing wrong?!!!

also maybe i should mention... I just installed SP3