Ruby on Rails: How to start the WEBrick server automatically on Windows in background?

Question

In order to run the my Rails application on Windows XP I open a command line, cd to application's directory, and then run rails server.

I would like to automate this, such that every time I turn on my computer, all I'll have to do is to type localhost:3000 in a browser.

How could I do this ?

Answer 1

The simpler way is to create a batch file with the instruction what you give in the command prompt like

d:

cd projects\myapp

ruby script\server

and then drop a copy of the file to Windows Start -> All Programs -> start up folder.