deprec-1.9.x quickstart

Here's what you need to run to deploy your app to a fresh Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper) server

cd /path/to/railsapp
deprec --apply-to . 
# edit config/deploy.rb to put in details for:
#  :name       - a short name for your application 
#  :domain     - the domain name it will be served from
#  :repository - your rails applications scm repository
cap install_rails_stack
cap setup
cap deploy_with_migrations
cap restart_apache

Improving your SSH experience

Put something like this in your .caprc

ssh_options[:keys] = %w(/Users/mbailey/.ssh/id_dsa)
ssh_options[:paranoid] = false
ssh_options[:forward_agent] = true

How to use it

Here are the official UsageDocsOld.