I do this in the Rails console:

job = scheduler.at 1.minute.from_now do Service.log.debug 'scheduler works' end
job.schedule_info
=> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:14:46 UTC 00:00

scheduler defined in another file:

require 'rubygems'
require 'rufus/scheduler'

def scheduler
  @scheduler ||= Rufus::Scheduler.start_new
end

And when I start the console:

Service.log.debug 'scheduler works'

A service log file has been recorded.

Problem

scheduler.at 1.minute.from_now do Service.log.debug 'scheduler works' end

Not logged in a minute. What am I missing? How can I debug this?

Actual problem

I have a server in EC2 that seems to be shutting down and scheduled tasks are not running.

The thing is, in my development environment, I test a task in one minute and it works. This is on the server not in the console. The console, as I mentioned, fails.

Environment Dev

ruby 1.9.3p327 (patch 2012-11-10 37606) [x86_64-darwin12.0.0]

Thin 1.5.0

Remote environment

ruby 1.9.3p429 (printable version 2013-05-15 40747) [x86_64-linux]

apache2 2.2.22

passenger 4.0.5

Gems

rails 3.2.8

rufus-scheduler 2.0.18