Hi Folks, Thanks for your patience, new release of BackgrounDRb is available now. You can get it from here: http://svn.devjavu.com/backgroundrb/trunk/ Yes, older version is deprecated and not supported anymore. A brief list of changes since last release is: 1. Now, each worker has logger objects, which can be used to log stuff. 2. A worker can be started or scheduled dynamically. 3. Multiple copies of same worker can be started using different job_keys. 4. You can query status of all workers in oneshot. Detailed information about various changes that has gone in place is available from here: http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/ Give it a spin and see how it turns out. Post all your problems here, I would be happy to have a look. If someone can lend me a hand, then we can port it to framework agnostic as well, so as it can run in a standalone manner, or with merb. -- Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals. http://gnufied.org