mk sent me the following tip for people wanting to running Tracks on Windows using Mongrel as the webserver, rather than WEBrick, Apache or lighttpd:

Installing mongrel (this would work for Linux and MacOS X users too):

sudo gem install mongrel
cd tracks_directory
mongrel_rails start -d

Running the service:

mongrel_rails_service install -n tracks -r c:\path\to\tracks -p 4000 -e production
mongrel_rails_service start -n tracks

Now hit the port and poof, it works (or should). The application will stop if you use:

mongrel_rails_service stop -n tracks

Off course, you can control service at services in the control panel. I have it set to start on boot, and that’s it. Read more about Mongrel or more about Mongrel on Windows.