Warning: If you aren’t a web nerd like me…you should just skip this one.

After putting it off for over 6 months, I finally took the plunge and started using Capistrano (which I have affectionately nicknamed ‘cappy’) to deploy my web applications. If you aren’t familiar with Capistrano, its basically a scripting system that you can easily setup for deploying Ruby on Rails applications from your local machine onto remote servers.

Well was it worth it? YOU BET! After having deployed 4 projects in 5 days I can say it is well worth the hour or two it will take you on your first one.

How do you get started? Check out the online “Capistrano book”:http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/17 (don’t worry…for most apps you’ll only need the first few chapters) and if you’re a mongrel user check out this tutorial about “mongrel, apache, and capistrano”:http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/time-for-a-grown-up-server-rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and-you/

Ok…that’s my nerdy proclamation for the day.