My favorite method: Active Record + Capistrano. Active Record is a Ruby library that provides ORM support in Ruby on Rails, and includes an elegant way for cre

My favorite method: Active Record + Capistrano. Active Record is a Ruby library that provides ORM support in Ruby on Rails, and includes an elegant way for creating reversible migrations. Capistrano allows you to configure and run tasks on a remote server, such as pulling the latest version of code from the git repo and running the newest migrations.