If you ask what the difference is between ‘transparent’ and ‘opaque’, most people will answer correctly. If you append –y, people somehow get confused.
Did you guys look into exporting your data from mysql to postgres with taps? (http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/taps). I've done this many times and it's been pretty simple.
2. Just use the "rake resque:work" task and I recommend using something like upstart that works awesome, but I have also done it with monit and both work great
"transparency: 1" != "opacity: 1"
We use transparency in the US. Transparency is how much light passes through an object and Opacity is how much it blocks.
so:
"transparency: 1" == "opacity: 0"