<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">ok, i was wrong. the failure on deployment using capistrano is 100% using these commands<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>## Our Handlers</DIV><DIV>desc "Restart BackgrounDrb"</DIV><DIV>task :restart_uploader, :roles =&gt; :app do</DIV><DIV>  run "#{current_path}/script/backgroundrb stop"  </DIV><DIV>  run "#{current_path}/script/backgroundrb start"</DIV><DIV>end</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV>here is the console post deploy on the remote server</DIV><DIV>########</DIV><DIV>[current]$ script/backgroundrb console</DIV><DIV>irb: warn: can't alias jobs from irb_jobs.</DIV><DIV>irb(#&lt;BackgrounDRb::MiddleMan:0xb7b74088&gt;):001:0&gt; loaded_worker_classes</DIV><DIV>=&gt; []</DIV><DIV>irb(#&lt;BackgrounDRb::MiddleMan:0xb7b74088&gt;):002:0&gt; exit</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Now ill stop it and start it again on the remote server</DIV><DIV>########</DIV><DIV>[current]$ script/backgroundrb stop</DIV><DIV>[current]$ script/backgroundrb start</DIV><DIV>[current]$ script/backgroundrb console</DIV><DIV>irb: warn: can't alias jobs from irb_jobs.</DIV><DIV>irb(#&lt;BackgrounDRb::MiddleMan:0xb7c13ed0&gt;):001:0&gt; loaded_worker_classes</DIV><DIV>=&gt; ["Mp3Worker", "FlvWorker"]</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>i DID find however that the following worked. seems i HAVE to be in the current directory in order for it to start properly. maybe this will help in tracking down the issue?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>desc "Restart BackgrounDrb"</DIV><DIV>task :restart_backgroundrb, :roles =&gt; :app do</DIV><DIV>  run "cd #{current_path} &amp;&amp; script/backgroundrb stop"  </DIV><DIV>  run "cd #{current_path} &amp;&amp; script/backgroundrb start"  </DIV><DIV>end</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jerrod Blavos</DIV><DIV>ph. 919.341.0143</DIV><DIV>fx.  482.492.5009</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:jerrod@indierockmedia.com">jerrod@indierockmedia.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>