Multistage deployments with Capistrano
I have been trying to set up a Capistrano script for deploying to a staging and production server. I found this very well written tutorial showing how to set up the various cap scripts to work with mod_rails (Passenger).
One note, Capistrano does not copy over the database.yml file. You need to put this in yourself. This tripped me up for a while since I was assuming that it would somehow magically take the database.yml.template file I had and turn it into a database.yml file that I would then have to configure. The Ruby magic doesn’t extend that far 
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