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)

Answer 1

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