Keep it simple, use UTC - all the time. Only convert and display in
timezones when you need. I wish all my data sources were UTC
That said if your only working in one timezone it probably doesn't
matter and choose whatever you like. If your in EST and you don't have
to do conversion EST is fin
You should be able to fork, but you wouldn't want multiple schedulers
so you'll be limited to 1 worker.
You can setup another app that is another environment of your
production app that only runs the scheduler.
If you get resque:scheduler to run let me know. I've run it on heroku
and it keeps get
