> http://www.capify.org/getting-started/from-the-beginning

Those steps are complicated because it include the steps to install a ruby on 
rails application, configure it, and deploy it.

I thought you could run capistrano outside rails, but maybe not.  I've always 
had a rails app :)

On Monday 01 December 2008 12:48:10 am Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Jeremy wrote:
> > Check out Capistrano.  It's used in the Ruby on Rails world to deploy
> > servers and updates, but it also works outside rails.
> >
> > You can define a set of servers and credentials, the just say
> >
> >  run "some_linux_command --options"
> > or
> >  sudo "some_linux_command --options"
>
> I like the idea.  It is similar to what Adam and I were talking about:
> automating ssh jobs in a scripting language (in this case it is Ruby).  I
> like that and I work with a good Ruby and RoR programmer.  On the other
> hand, it it looks like it requires quite a bit of work to get things
> going:
>
> http://www.capify.org/getting-started/from-the-beginning
>
> I'm sure we'll be studying that one closely though.
>
> Mike