Redmine

For what is worth, I've dropped using Mongrel and Mongrel service gems which are both not maintained anymore and switched to Puma and to a win32-service custom made service.

That said, if your Mongrel setup is working by command line, the custom made service could be enough if you replace the rails s puma by some rails s mongrel or whatever.

After gem install win32-service, drop the below code in a service.rb file and just, e.g., sc create redmine binPath="C:\Ruby193\bin\rubyw -C D:\redmine\ service.rb" (AFAIR it well).

REDMINE_DIR = 'D:\redmine'
LOG_FILE = "#{REDMINE_DIR}\\log\\service.log" 

begin
  require 'win32/daemon'
  include Win32

  class RedmineService < Daemon

    def service_init
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Initializing service #{Time.now}" } 

      @server_pid = Process.spawn 'rails s puma -e production', :chdir => REDMINE_DIR, :err => [LOG_FILE, 'a']
    end

    def service_main
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Service is running #{Time.now} with pid #{@server_pid}" }
      while running?
        sleep 10
      end
    end

    def service_stop
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Stopping server thread #{Time.now}" }
      system "taskkill /PID #{@server_pid} /T /F" 
      Process.waitall
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Service stopped #{Time.now}" }
      exit!
    end
  end

  RedmineService.mainloop

rescue Exception => e
  File.open(LOG_FILE,'a+'){ |f| f.puts " ***Daemon failure #{Time.now} exception=#{e.inspect}\n#{e.backtrace.join($/)}" }
  raise
end

Rude and quick dirty code though, might have some issue when stopping service but it works.
Also note that I'm not even sure that the PID in Windows is unique.

Hope it helps.

Thanks for the reply.

I now have redmine running in puma.

but the script you provided wont seem to run as a service or at the command prompt.
It will run with slight modification in the ruby shell. the 'rails' file is located in the .\script folder

REDMINE_DIR = 'C:\redmine-2.0'
LOG_FILE = "#{REDMINE_DIR}\\log\\service.log" 

begin
  require 'rubygems'
  require 'win32/daemon'

  include Win32

  class RedmineService < Daemon

    def service_init
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Initializing service #{Time.now}" } 

      @server_pid = Process.spawn 'rails s puma -e production', :chdir => "#{REDMINE_DIR}\\Script" #, [:out, :err] => [LOG_FILE, 'a']
    end

    def service_main
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Service is running #{Time.now} with pid #{@server_pid}" }
      while running?
        sleep 10
      end
    end

    def service_stop
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Stopping server thread #{Time.now}" }
      system "taskkill /PID #{@server_pid} /T /F" 
      Process.waitall
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Service stopped #{Time.now}" }
      exit!
    end
  end

  RedmineService.mainloop

rescue Exception => e
  File.open(LOG_FILE,'a+'){ |f| f.puts " ***Daemon failure #{Time.now} exception=#{e.inspect}\n#{e.backtrace.join($/)}" }
  raise
end

The entries in the service.log file

Initializing service 2012-05-17 10:03:27 +0100
 ***Daemon failure 2012-05-17 10:03:27 +0100 exception=#<Errno::ENOEXEC: Exec format error - rails s puma -e production>
C:/redmine-2.0/service.rb:15:in `spawn'
C:/redmine-2.0/service.rb:15:in `service_init'
C:/redmine-2.0/service.rb:34:in `mainloop'
C:/redmine-2.0/service.rb:34:in `mainloop'
C:/redmine-2.0/service.rb:34:in `<main>'

Any ideas?

rails is here the command located in the MRI bin dir itself added to the %PATH%. You can have removed it accidently when uninstalling the railties gem in which case you might want to install it again to have the command back?

Thanks for the reply.

I've got it running using the old srvany.exe routine.
Seems to be working fine

Hello,

Can't get rid of this ENOEXEC: Exec format error - rails s puma -e production.
Can you please explain a bit more how to solve it.

You should try to run the command from an interactive interpreter.

ruby script/rails s puma -e production is a safer syntax.