I have a fresh rails 3 app, here's my Gemfile:

source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.0.0' gem 'delayed_job'

gem 'sqlite3-ruby', :require => 'sqlite3'

Here's the class that represents the job that I want to queue:

class Me < Struct.new(:something)

def perform

puts "Hello from me"
logger.info "Hello from me"
logger.debug "Hello from me"
raise Exception.new   

end

end

From the console with no workers running:

irb(main):002:0> Delayed::Job.enqueue Me.new(1)
=> #<Delayed::Backend::ActiveRecord::Job id: 7, priority: 0, attempts: 0, handler: "--- !ruby/struct:Me \nsomething: 1\n", last_error: nil, run_at: "2010-12-29 07:24:11", locked_at: nil, failed_at: nil, locked_by: nil, created_at: "2010-12-29 07:24:11", updated_at: "2010-12-29 07:24:11">

Like I mentioned: there are no workers running:

irb(main):003:0> Delayed::Job.all
=> [#<Delayed::Backend::ActiveRecord::Job id: 7, priority: 0, attempts: 0, handler: "--- !ruby/struct:Me \nsomething: 1\n", last_error: nil, run_at: "2010-12-29 07:24:11", locked_at: nil, failed_at: nil, locked_by: nil, created_at: "2010-12-29 07:24:11", updated_at: "2010-12-29 07:24:11">]

I start a worker with script/delayed_job run

The queue gets emptied:

irb(main):006:0> Delayed::Job.all
=> []

However, nothing happens as a result of the puts, nothing is logged from the logger calls, and no exception is raised. I'd appreciate any help / insight or anything to try.