I am unable to get mongrel service to be either installed or using mongrel_rails to start redmine. i have followed what you have specified here:

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/165986#728443

but when i try to install mongrel service as shown below, i get this error

C:\Ruby\apps>gem install –local mongrel_service-0.3.4-i386-mswin32.gem
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Package::FormatError)
No metadata found!

C:\Ruby\apps>

since i am a novice at ruby, if i tried this command after that, i get an error (obviously)

C:\Ruby\apps>mongrel_rails service::install -N Redmine -c C:\Ruby\apps\redmine -
p 80 -e production
ERROR RUNNING ’service::install’: Plugin /service::install does not exist in cat
egory /commands
Use help command to get help

C:\Ruby\apps>

Please can you help me on this so that I can get my redmine running. Why has software installation got to be so tough! ….

The error message clearly states that you’re missing daemons gem:

gem install daemons

I worked with Eric fixing other problems, not this

Also, if you mixed apt-get installed ruby and rubygems you will have a nightmare trying to figure out where is actually the problem.

If mongrel or rubygems was working for you before, you should follow the “don’t fix ain’t broken” motto

/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — daemons/daemonize (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:189:in `daemonize’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/mongrel_rails:92:in `cloaker_’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:50:in `call’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:50:in `initialize’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/mongrel_rails:84:in `new’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/mongrel_rails:84:in `run’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel/command.rb:212:in `run’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/mongrel_rails:281
from /usr/bin/mongrel_rails:19:in `load’
from /usr/bin/mongrel_rails:19

I noticed that you worked with Eric Hodel trying to fix this problem on Win32 platforms but I’m here to tell you it’s happening on Ubuntu as well. I’ve tried installing rubygems 0.9.4 and moving ahead with installing Mongrel as well but I’m still having problems…

all you need to do is get the Source Files and install them. (ruby, rubygems, etc…)

OSX is not broken that I know.
I have both OSX 10.4 and 10.5. None which I had problems.

see how easy in OSX:
1. download and install Macports (www.macports.org)
2. $ sudo port install ruby

3. download and install rubygems
or
$ sudo port install rb-rubygems

Leopard is shipped with ruby1.8.6, rubygems and tons of gems, including mongrel.

for OSX Tiger 10.4, which has old ruby version,
just add this at the end of your .bashrc or .bash_profile, so you will be using latest ruby from macports, which installs in /opt/local

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH

Yesterday I worked with Eric fixing the backwards compatibilities issues of RubyGems and existing ‘mswin32′ gems like Mongrel, Hpricot and others.

1.0.0 ships with these fixes.

Regarding Leopard I cannot comment, but there is a open ticket for GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH on Windows that is tricky to solve right now (and I decided to pospone it for the time being).

http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2007/12/20/rubygems-1-0-0