Folks- I just pushed new version of backgroundrb to rubyforge. THis release fixes a bug with thread handling and also adds a few things. Thanks to Chris Hulbert for coding up a win32 service and daemon script. You will need to reinstall the plugin if you already have it and delete the script/backgroundrb dir from your rails project. Then run this command to see windows service usage: > ruby script/backgroundrb/service --help I also finally added a restart rake task. $ rake backgroundrb:restart I would appreciate it if some windows users can test out the service part and let me know if you run into any issues as I don''t have a windows box to test on. Cheers- -Ezra