srvany_manager

by James Tucker
http://ra66i.org
http://github.com/raggi/srvany_manager

DESCRIPTION:

A quick and simple manager for running programs as services on win32. Makes use of / requires the SRVANY.exe from the Windows Resource Kit.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

  • It’s simple.

SYNOPSIS:

sm = SrvanyManager.new('rbsvc-', File.expand_path("srvany.exe"))
sm.create('foo', "c:\ruby18\bin\rubyw c:\daemon\my_awesome_daemon.rb")
sm.start('foo')
sm.stop('foo')
sm.delete('foo')
sm.list

REQUIREMENTS:

At the time of writing, some of the dependencies are only available as gems to the ‘x86-mswin32-60’ platform. If you are installing on mingw, you can get away with installing them using a specific –platform argument to rubygems.

  • gem inst win32-service win32-registry

INSTALL:

  • gem inst srvany_manager

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2008 James Tucker

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.