Runs a barebone Redmine installation as a Windows service and opens it to the outside on port 3000

service.rb

REDMINE_DIR = 'C:\redmine\redmine-3.4.4\redmine-3.4.4'
LOG_FILE = "#{REDMINE_DIR}\\log\\service.log" 

begin
  require 'win32/daemon'
  include Win32

  class RedmineService < Daemon

    def service_init
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Initializing service #{Time.now}" } 

      @server_pid = Process.spawn 'ruby bin/rails s -b 0.0.0.0 -e production', :chdir => REDMINE_DIR, :err => [LOG_FILE, 'a']
    end

    def service_main
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Service is running #{Time.now} with pid #{@server_pid}" }
      while running?
        sleep 10
      end
    end

    def service_stop
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Stopping server thread #{Time.now}" }
      system "taskkill /PID #{@server_pid} /T /F" 
      Process.waitall
      File.open(LOG_FILE, 'a'){ |f| f.puts "Service stopped #{Time.now}" }
      exit!
    end
  end

  RedmineService.mainloop

rescue Exception => e
  File.open(LOG_FILE,'a+'){ |f| f.puts " ***Daemon failure #{Time.now} exception=#{e.inspect}\n#{e.backtrace.join($/)}" }
  raise
end