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Hi there, I have a scheduled task which I started from Rails, set to run every 5 minutes, it takes probably about 20-30 seconds to execute (it''s aggregating some feeds). It ran for about 5 hours and then mysteriously stopped -- the logs show no errors. This kind of sucks because it''s like a silent failure, has anyone else had this problem? --simon --

Hi. I''m using backgroundrb to, in part, wrap smtp transactions made through actionmailer. The problem is that when smtp fails with a timeout error, the worker simply stops at that point. No exception is returned. I''ve tried wrapping this call in a begin...rescue block but no exception seems to be making it back to the worker (other methods are correctly passing exceptions to