rubywindowsservice.rb

# rubysrvc.rb 
require 'rubygems' 
require 'win32/service'
require 'win32/daemon'


include Win32 
SERVICE_NAME = "RubySvc" 
SERVICE_DISPLAYNAME = "A Ruby Service" 


if ARGV[0] == "register" 
	# Start the service.
	Service.create(
	  :service_name => SERVICE_NAME,
      :service_type       => Service::WIN32_OWN_PROCESS,
      :description        => "A custom service I wrote just for fun",
      :start_type         => Service::AUTO_START,
      :error_control      => Service::ERROR_NORMAL,
      :binary_path_name   => 'C:\ruby\bin\ruby "' + File.expand_path($0) + '"',
      :load_order_group   => 'Network',
      :dependencies       => "",
      :display_name       => SERVICE_DISPLAYNAME)

#['W32Time','Schedule']
#      :service_start_name => 'SomeDomain\\User',
#      :password           => 'XXXXXXX',
 
# Start the service. 
#	svc = Service.new(SERVICE_NAME)
#      svc.create_service do |s| 
#        s.service_name = SERVICE_NAME 
#        s.display_name = SERVICE_DISPLAYNAME 
#        s.binary_path_name = 'C:\ruby\bin\ruby ' + 
#          File.expand_path($0) 
#        s.dependencies = [] 
#      end 
#      svc.close
    puts "Registered Service - " + SERVICE_DISPLAYNAME 
elsif ARGV[0] == "delete" 
    # Stop the service. 
  if Service.status(SERVICE_NAME).current_state == "running" 
    Service.stop(SERVICE_NAME) 
  end 
  Service.delete(SERVICE_NAME) 
  puts "Removed Service - " + SERVICE_DISPLAYNAME 
else
 	
#if ENV["HOMEDRIVE"]!=nil 
      # We are not running as a service, but the user didn't provide any 
      # command line arguments. We've got nothing to do. 
#      puts "Usage: ruby rubysvc.rb [option]" 
#      puts "   Where option is one of the following:" 
#      puts "       register - To register the Service so it " + 
#           "appears in the control panel" 
#      puts "       delete   - To delete the Service from the control panel" 
#      exit    
#      
#  end
  
# If we got this far, we are running as a service. 
class Daemon 
  def service_init 
    # Give the service time to get everything initialized and running, 
    # before we enter the service_main function. 
    sleep 10
  end
  
  def service_main 
    fileCount = 0 # Initialize the file counter for the rename 
    watchForFile = "c:\\findme.txt" 


    while state == RUNNING 
      sleep 5 
      if File.exists? watchForFile 
          fileCount += 1 
          File.rename watchForFile, watchForFile + "." + fileCount.to_s 
      end 
    end 
  end 
end 
  d = Daemon.new 
  d.mainloop 
end