Working with Drupal fields may cause lots of headache, especially if you are digging through the code programmatically. I’m saying this after countless times searching for a field setting, or just a list of allowed values for a certain field type. Since I also tend to forget this stuff pretty fast, I thought it might be good to write it down for later reference.
All you need is Capistrano and an account on the deploy machine. This can be used and extended to deploy to several servers (also at once), move databases around, etc. The gain is that you don't need to login to the server. We can talk about that interesting technique tomorrow.
