Hubot windows service

Question

I would like to wrap my Hubot in a windows service to deploy it.

I am using node-windows to do this but I'm having some trouble trying to get it to run a coffee-script file (which is what hubot uses).

If i manually run

> coffee .\node_modules\hubot\bin\hubot

everything works fine.

But I cant work out how to call this from a node-windows script. My attempt below:

var Service = require('node-windows').Service;

var svc = new Service({
  name:'Hubot',
  description: 'Hubot',
  script: 'coffee .\\hubot\\node_modules\\hubot\\bin\\hubot'
});

svc.on('install',function(){
  svc.start();
});

svc.install();

which fails with the following:

C:\Users\luke.mcgregor\hubot>node app.js fs.js:747 return binding.mkdir(pathModule._makeLong(path), ^ Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory 'C:\Users\luke.mcgregor\hubot\coffee .\hubot\node_modules\hubot\bin\daemon' at Error (native) at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:747:18) at C:\Users\luke.mcgregor\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-windows\lib\daemon.js:409:16 at FSReqWrap.cb [as oncomplete] (fs.js:226:19)

Have you tried using forever to run it (https://github.com/foreverjs/forever) Is there a rigid dependency to run it as a service so you can run it as a specific user? — john.da.costa, Nov 19 '15 at 00:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 10 '15 at 11:54

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The script is not a command, only the path to a file. You can change the executable used by node-windows to run your scripts by setting an execPath environment variable: https://github.com/coreybutler/node-windows/issues/61#issuecomment-51423542

answered Nov 10 '15 at 11:54

Shanoor

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