[chef] Re: Re: starting background process on windows

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Aug 24, 2013, at 12:52 AM, Florian Hehlen wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> Thanks for the links. I got over my initial issue with a simple 
> Process.spawn followed by Process.detach. This is obviously not enough for 
> a production environment. But at the moment I am in the startup phase of 
> the project and getting up and going is more important than making things 
> bullet-proof. 
> 
> I will definitely take a look at the cookbooks you suggest. I am still new 
> to Ruby and have to admit struggle when looking at other people's code. 
> This is part of why my first attempts were not working. I also find myself 
> very alone in the windows/chef world which does not help when looking for 
> online help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890 shows how to create a service from any ;
arbitrary process in Windows using srvany.

--Noah