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Ezra, Sorry for inundating the list. In using the autostart, repeat_every, and first_run, I noticed a behaviour I didn''t expect. I would like the job to run starting at 2am, and then every 24 hours. So I set first_run to Time.now.beginning_of_day + 2.hours, and repeat_every to 24.hours. The problem is if backgroundrb starts up at 6am (due to a code change or server bump), then the process runs immediately (because first_run < Time.now), and then runs every 24 hours from that time, so 6am every day. I was expecting more cron-ish behavio...

All I want to do is find the objects that were created today under the ''created_on'' column. I''ve tried many ways, here is one example using the chronic gem. @products = Product.find_all_by_created_on(Chronic.parse(''today'')) I must be missing something right in front of me .... Thanks for any help.

The Time::next_week method is supposed to give the time of the start of the next week. But look at this, it cocks up : >> t=Time.parse "Monday October 16th 2006" => Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week => Mon Oct 23 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week => Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week.next_week => Mon Oct 30

I currently have a model that simply contains one datetime field: class CreateElectricityReadings < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :clocks do |t| t.datetime :time_keeper t.timestamps end end def self.down drop_table :clocks end end If I enter the date string "13/10/2010" into this field its showing up in the controller as

Here are my scopes: default_scope :order => ''posted_on DESC'', :conditions => { :status => ''visible'' } named_scope :positive, :conditions => { :rating => ''positive'', :status => ''visible'' } named_scope :neutral, :conditions => { :rating => ''neutral'', :status =>