Win32 service error

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Hello
I am trying out an example from http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/595/service.html
and it errors out
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'
   )

E:/TradingTools/Development/app/helpers/Ruby-1.rb:8: syntax error,
unexpected tSYMBEG, expecting ')'
      :start_type => Service::AUTO_START,
       ^

2

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

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3

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'
   )

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On Feb 25, 12:59 pm, Sebastian Hungerecker <sep...@googlemail.com> wrote:

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
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