Error when running on windows

[Leonas]

This gem install fine but when I run it, I get the following error:

$ genghisapp
c:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -

• win32/process (LoadError)
  from c:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:55:in require' from c:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/vegas-0.1.8/lib/vegas/runner.rb:8:intop (required)
  '
  from c:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/genghisapp-2.1.3/bin/genghisapp:11:in `top (required)
  '
  from c:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/bin/genghisapp:19:in 'load'
  from c:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/bin/genghisapp:19:in 'main'

[bobthecow]

I have honestly never used Ruby on Windows :)

I'll try to help, but I'm traveling so I don't have a windows instance handy to test this on. Do you mind trying something for me? Edit c:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/bin/genghisapp and change out the require File.expand_path line for this:

require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'genghis'))

[Leonas]

Looks like your app won't work on windows because of a dependency. I looked further into this and the vegas gem doesn't work with windows. In one of vegas' source files it said to do 'gem install win32-process' but then the daemon wasn't working and found that they have given up on making it work with windows:

quirkey/vegas#3

Maybe you can use a different gem for that job because genghis is awesome but I use windows as well. At least it works on my macbook.

[bobthecow]

From that issue, it looks like it's just daemonization that is broken on windows. If you run it in the foreground (-F flag) does it work?

Regardless, if that's the issue you're running into, it should still work mounted in rack. Try the rack instructions?

https://github.com/bobthecow/genghis#in-an-existing-rack-app

[Leonas]

Awesome, running genghisapp -F fixed everything! Thanks!

[bobthecow]

Thanks for your help tracking this down. As of the next release, genghisapp will always run in the foreground for Windows users (and a note to that effect has been added to the README).

[runxc1]

So just curious how does this tell that its running on Windows. I am trying to get this up and running on windows 8 and am running into these errors even with the -F flag

[bobthecow]

It's here and here... I don't have a windows box with Ruby to test on, so I was relying on the built-in check in Vegas.

If it's not working for you, do you mind opening irb and checking what RUBY_PLATFORM is set to?

[runxc1]

i386-mingw32 is what it is set to. As a side note I was able to set it up as a Rack app. I had never set up a Rack app so didn't know that it was that easy. For those that read this later just drop the config.ru in a directory and run the command "rackup config.ru" from the directory and you are good to go.

[bobthecow]

Oh, there's also this one:

ruby `gem which genghis`

:)

[bobthecow]

if it's i386-mingw32, then the detection is working properly. it must be something with Vegas in Windows 8 then :-/

[bobthecow]

wait. is that how you say "interpolate the output of this command" in windows? i don't remember.

[runxc1]

C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/genghisapp-2.1.6/./genghis.rb
is the output from
ruby gem which genghis

[bobthecow]

On *nix shells the backticks make it interpolate the result of the "which" call, but I don't know how to do that on Windows. It's the same as running:

ruby C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/genghisapp-2.1.6/./genghis.rb