Daemon creation not working using Win32Utils ruby gem - ruby

Question

This is the code I am trying to run as a service.
require 'rubygems'
require 'win32/daemon'
require 'win32/service'
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
exit!
end
end
Daemon.mainloop
This is the code I use to register the Service
require 'rubygems'
require 'win32/service'
include Win32
SERVICE_NAME = 'ruby_sample1'
# Create a new service
ser = Service.create({
:service_name => SERVICE_NAME,
: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 => 'c:\\Ruby186\\bin\\ruby.exe -C c:\\temp\\test.rb',
:load_order_group => 'Network',
:dependencies => ['W32Time','Schedule'],
:display_name => SERVICE_NAME
})
After the service is registered I try to start the service from services.msc. I get an error that says "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

Answer 1

open an irb session and say - require 'win32/daemon'
Most likely you'll get the answer to 1053 problem especially if you have installed win32-service gem for platform mswin32.
I had the same problem and win32-service gem just won't build for platform ruby on my machine even after installing devkit. It persistently gave me following error
win32/daemon.c:141:7: error: '__try' undeclared (first use in this function)
Eventually I ended by building win32-service gem from the latest code on github.