This is a mono-compatible utility for .NET console apps, it lets you run them as services and recompile and restart them when a new build is detected. You can also add new services on the fly.

1. You'll need MongoDB or similar to hold the service information. You can just set up a freebie database at MongoHQ if necessary. Inside your database lives a single collection with one of these documents for each service: { name: "servicename", path: "/path/to/the/project", restart: false }

2. You'll need Mono although there's no reason it won't work on Windows as well.

3. I created a special account that has read access to my private repositories so this service can just do a 'git pull', but it would be trivial to tie this to build hooks or whatever API.

1. git clone https://github.com/benlowry/mono-service-wrapper
2. cd mono-service-wrapper
3. put the right mongodb connection in the app.config
4. xbuild
5. launch with mono-service ./service-wrapper/bin/Debug/ServiceWrapper.exe

This is very basic, it doesn't gracefully stop your services, it doesn't let you stop, remove or schedule services which would all be pretty cool features.

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