Right, you can do what you want, I know that. The point is: If you do it, then you're at the deployment model that rails has been using all the time and that th

Right, you can do what you want, I know that. The point is: If you do it, then you're at the deployment model that rails has been using all the time and that the php people said to be way too complicated. The simplest way nowadays to deploy rails is mod_passenger. It's about as simple as it gets - dump files, reload app. Done. Actually, I don't get what's so simple about deploying PHP files individually via ftp. All I do is enter 'cap deploy' on a terminal. And I get free rollback. (there's web interfaces as well)