Post by Peter Cooper on February 23rd, 2007
Rapid Rails Deployment with Ubuntu, Capistrano, and Deprec

- The Absolute Moron’s Guide to Capistrano
- Capistrano and “Rails + Ubuntu” Screencasts
- Capistrano 2.0: Flexible Automated Deployment System


Here's a detailed tutorial of how to use Capistrano and Deprec (a set of add-on 'deployment recipes' for Capistrano) to put together a solid deployment system for your Rails applications on an Ubuntu server.
(Credit for lead: Matthew, via e-mail)

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February 23rd, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Note that you have to you use Ubuntu Dapper 6.06. I mistakenly downloaded Edgy 6.10 and found that the install_rails_stack task failed spectacularly. Ity looks like the packaging of Ruby is different under 6.10.
Alan