This gem provides a number of tasks which are useful for deploying Drupal projects.
Question arises: how to upgrade your Drupal installations * timely, * safely, * with confidence that none of your local customizations are lost; * without need to remember each line that was edited and re-applying those edits to new version; * without need to drastically change your workflow (very little discipline is needed actually); We show that Git solves those problems easily.
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.
