BTW - I just resubmitted a new job and then ran all the queries that showed up in the logs manually to see what it was getting back here is that output. From development.log Bj::Table::Job Create (0.001226) INSERT INTO "bj_job" ("is_restartable", "pid", "stdout", "stdin", "command", "submitter", "finished_at", "env", "stderr", "submitted_at", "priority", "tag", "runner", "started_at", "exit_status", "state") VALUES(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, 'ls', 'dustymini.local', NULL, NULL, NULL, '2008-07-22 01:30:09', 0, '', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'pending') Bj::Table::Config Load (0.000502) SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.no_tickle' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = 'dustymini.local') LIMIT 1 Bj::Table::Config Load (0.000677) SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.no_tickle' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = '*') LIMIT 1 Bj::Table::Config Load (0.000361) SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.23996.pid' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = 'dustymini.local') LIMIT 1 Bj::Table::Config Load (0.000267) SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.23996.pid' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = '*') LIMIT 1 Bj::Table::Config Load (0.000276) SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.0.pid' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = 'dustymini.local') LIMIT 1 Bj::Table::Config Load (0.000247) SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.0.pid' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = '*') LIMIT 1 Bj::Table::Config Load (0.000254) SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = '.uri' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = 'dustymini.local') LIMIT 1 Bj::Table::Config Load (0.000244) SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = '.uri' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = '*') LIMIT 1 Running all those commands manually, one returned an answer (between the **) sqlite> SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.no_tickle' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = 'dustymini.local') LIMIT 1; sqlite> SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.no_tickle' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = '*') LIMIT 1; ** sqlite> SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.23996.pid' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = 'dustymini.local') LIMIT 1; 1|dustymini.local|development.23996.pid|24011|to_i ** sqlite> SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.23996.pid' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = '*') LIMIT 1; sqlite> SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.0.pid' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = 'dustymini.local') LIMIT 1; sqlite> SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = 'development.0.pid' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = '*') LIMIT 1; sqlite> SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = '.uri' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = 'dustymini.local') LIMIT 1; sqlite> SELECT * FROM "bj_config" WHERE ("bj_config"."key" = '.uri' AND "bj_config"."hostname" = '*') LIMIT 1;