+1 for Capistrano, we use it to deploy Rails, Sinatra, and PHP apps. gem install capistrano-ext and you can do easy multi-stage deploys (deploy a different bra

+1 for Capistrano, we use it to deploy Rails, Sinatra, and PHP apps. gem install capistrano-ext and you can do easy multi-stage deploys (deploy a different branch to your staging/testing/beta server by doing cap staging deploy vs. cap production deploy for example). More details here: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/7/23/capistrano-multistage http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/7/23/capistrano-multistage