wow, backgroundrb is great. in about 3 hours we had converted all our daemons over from daemon-generator to backgroundrb, with much more control and power. it''s awesome. the only problem is that we can''t seem to get the observers to load. in my worker, I go like this: def create(args = nil) ActiveRecord::Base.observers = :event_observer EventObserver.instance end which indicates it''s loaded, but it doesn''t seem to trigger itself. does anybody have any known issues with observers not observing? also, I''m a bit confused about how/when it loads environment files - does it load the environment/production.rb file if i''m in production mode? chris.