[Mongrel] windows service auto start problems

Mark Roghelia
Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:20:40 -0000

I have a small Rails app deployed on Windows Server 2003 and Mongrel
0.3.13.3.  Everything works well, except when the Windows box is
rebooted.  I have mongrel_service installed and the service is
configured to start automatically, however Mongrel consistently fails
to start after a reboot.  Windows reports the service''s status as
"Started", but attempts to access the app fail and checking Task
Manager reveals there is no ruby process running.  If I manually stop
and start the service at that point everything comes up fine.  I
don''t see anything of note in any of the log files in the Rails
"log"
directory, or in the Event Viewer.

Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior?  If so, do you have any
suggestions about how to work around it?

I understand that work is currently being done to retool
mongrel_service.  Is this possibly a known issue and something that
is being addressed?

Thanks,

Mark Roghelia