Ruby rufus-scheduler on Rails

I've been playing around with the rufus-scheduler, trying to make it work in a rails environment.
The problem I was facing was that the new threads that were created by the scheduler for running the jobs were somehow detached from the the Active Record environment resulting in a failure to load my application models within their scope.

Every time I tried loading a model object from the database I would get an error that the copy of my job instance "has been removed from the module tree but is still active"

Pretty confusing

My cowboy programming solution for this was to activate a block as the job instance and in it invoke a controller. from the controller, I managed to access everything I needed in terms of active support.

The code as following:

scheduler.every "10s" , :timeout => "1m", :tags => "etl_job" do |job|
  url = "#{server_url}?tag=#{job.params[:tags]}"
  run(url)
end

The run is defined as:

def self.run(url)
    logger.debug "--- Initiating Job with:  #{url} "
    uri = URI.parse(url)
    http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
    http.use_ssl = true if uri.scheme == 'https'
    request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
    response = http.request(request)
  end

The url hits a controller and from there everything acts normally for rails.

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