Capistrano (formerly known as Switchtower) is a utility which may be used to automate the deployment of your applications. Resources Introducing SwitchTower by its author JamisBuck. Fun with SwitchTower by its author JamisBuck. The book Capistrano: Automating Application Deployment Capistrano and the Rails Application Lifecycle Safari Book, By Tom Mornini, Marc Loy source code on trac. Capistrano