I've written something for deploying ruby apps here: http://github.com/BytemarkHosting/au http://github.com/BytemarkHosting/au It uses bundler locally to wrap

I've written something for deploying ruby apps here: http://github.com/BytemarkHosting/au http://github.com/BytemarkHosting/au It uses bundler locally to wrap all your dependencies into a single package, so you don't have to care about packaging each individual gem, and supplies an `activate` script like Python's virtualenv. Something else it does, which I've not seen elsewhere, is scan your binary gems for library dependencies, so you get all the deps (say, libxml and libxslt) installed when you apt-get install your app's package. This works really well for me.