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I'm seeing a recurring theme in my feed reader today - multi-stage deployments with Capistrano. It seems that those of us working in larger companies have all hit the same issue - we have some form of user acceptance, staging or other system which mirrors the production in configuration; and we want to use Capistrano to deploy to it as well as production. I know that my current company has a 5-stage process for pushing out releases (we're in financial services, and very paranoid. Whether they'd ever accept Capistrano is another issue).

So here are my lazy pointers to the discussions:

• Ola Bini, who's been doing some great posts on ruby metaprogramming, calls out his need for a "production_test" environment.

• Simon Harris shares some snippets of deploying to his staged server running mongrel.

• Jamis Buck, the creator of Capistrano, weighed in a while ago on multiple deployment stages