Rails - Jun 2006 - script/server mongrel on windows

Supposedly the latest edge rail supports mongrel via script/server.  I 
have mogrel all installed and working when called via:

  mongrel_rails service::start -N mw_dev_server

However when I do:

  ruby script/server mongrel

I get:

  PROBLEM: Mongrel is not available on your system (or not in your path)

Upon further investigation, it appears that mongrel prevents itself from 
loading on windows with the following lines:

  unless RUBY_PLATFORM !~ /mswin/ && !silence_stderr { `mongrel_rails` 
}.blank?
    puts "PROBLEM: Mongrel is not available on your system (or not in 
your path)"
    exit 1
  end

From:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/railties/lib/commands/servers/mongrel.rb

Why is does it prevent itself form loading on windows?  It seems 
lighttpd does this same thing.  IS it possible to get this running on 
windows, and I am just missing something silly?

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Alex Wayne wrote:
> Supposedly the latest edge rail supports mongrel via script/server.  I 
> have mogrel all installed and working when called via:
> 
>   mongrel_rails service::start -N mw_dev_server
> 
> However when I do:
> 
>   ruby script/server mongrel
> 
> I get:
> 
>   PROBLEM: Mongrel is not available on your system (or not in your path)
> 
> Why is does it prevent itself form loading on windows?  It seems 
> lighttpd does this same thing.  IS it possible to get this running on 
> windows, and I am just missing something silly?
Upon further investigation, it appears that ruby doesn''t execute 
commands very well on the windows command line.  Webrick servers are 
created entirely in the ruby script which is why they work just fine.

c:\foo> mongrel_rails start
### Mongrel starts just fine

c:\foo> irb
> `mongrel_rails start`
Errno::ENOEXEC: Exec format error - mongrel_rails start
        from (irb):1:in ``''
        from (irb):1

So does this mean ruby is blame for locking windows out of these 
development server options?

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I found when I need to execute a command that was on both windows/linux (on
being .sh the other being .com) and both were on the paths correctly (would
run fine at the prompt) I still needed to make ruby happy at this point. I
did a check to see if I was running in windows, and if I was, I stuck a
''.com'' on the end of the command and it worked.

This may or may not help with mongrel, haven''t tried it yet. But this
is my
experince with Ruby and executing stuff on windows.

-Nick

On 6/27/06, Alex Wayne <rubyonrails@beautifulpixel.com>
wrote:
>
> Alex Wayne wrote:
> > Supposedly the latest edge rail supports mongrel via script/server.  I
> > have mogrel all installed and working when called via:
> >
> >   mongrel_rails service::start -N mw_dev_server
> >
> > However when I do:
> >
> >   ruby script/server mongrel
> >
> > I get:
> >
> >   PROBLEM: Mongrel is not available on your system (or not in your
path)
> >
> > Why is does it prevent itself form loading on windows?  It seems
> > lighttpd does this same thing.  IS it possible to get this running on
> > windows, and I am just missing something silly?
>
> Upon further investigation, it appears that ruby doesn''t execute
> commands very well on the windows command line.  Webrick servers are
> created entirely in the ruby script which is why they work just fine.
>
> c:\foo> mongrel_rails start
> ### Mongrel starts just fine
>
> c:\foo> irb
> > `mongrel_rails start`
> Errno::ENOEXEC: Exec format error - mongrel_rails start
>         from (irb):1:in ``''
>         from (irb):1
>
> So does this mean ruby is blame for locking windows out of these
> development server options?
>
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Nick Stuart wrote:
> I found when I need to execute a command that was on both windows/linux 
> (on
> being .sh the other being .com) and both were on the paths correctly 
> (would
> run fine at the prompt) I still needed to make ruby happy at this point. 
> I
> did a check to see if I was running in windows, and if I was, I stuck a
> ''.com'' on the end of the command and it worked.
> 
> This may or may not help with mongrel, haven''t tried it yet. But
this is
> my
> experince with Ruby and executing stuff on windows.
> 
> -Nick
Doesn''t seem to be any help.  The mongrel gem does not include a com 
file so I just get a file not found error:

  script/server: No such file or directory - mongrel_rails.com start  -p 
3000 -a 0.0.0.0

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There''s a patch waiting to be committed, #5499, which should fix the 
problem on win32.



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Jeff Cohen wrote:
> There''s a patch waiting to be committed, #5499, which should fix
the
> problem on win32.
Superswank.

Works perfectly.  Thanks for the heads up.

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