We use capistrano with multi-stage deployment. There is a recipe called "railsless-deploy" that removes all the rails dependent processes (http://github.com/lee

We use capistrano with multi-stage deployment. There is a recipe called "railsless-deploy" that removes all the rails dependent processes (http://github.com/leehambley/railsless-deploy http://github.com/leehambley/railsless-deploy). We also use the "git-deployment" recipe which does auto tagging of staging and production pushes (http://github.com/apinstein/git-deployment http://github.com/apinstein/git-deployment).