I just ran into the same problem as James Hughes (thread "Rake tasks fail silently, how to debug?"). I''m wondering if the rake backgroundrb:setup task should always overwrite the script/backgroundrb files to be on the safe side. Or at least warn that some already exist. Maybe there''s a way to be noisy if the backgroundrb:start task doesn''t actually start a backgroundrb process? Just some thoughts. Chris