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.
Unfortunately, while Capistrano is all easy to use with Rails, I had to write a custom Drupal-tailored Capfile.
This gem provides a number of tasks which are useful for deploying Drupal projects.
This gem provides a number of tasks which are useful for deploying Drupal projects.
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