Alternatives to Deprec Deployment with Rails?

I have开发者_运维技巧 been using Deprec with Slicehost for a bit now but it seems like development isn't that active anymore.

What do you use for automating most of the deployment steps for Rails these days? I'm using Slicehost.

I've not tried them, but Rails core member Josh Peek has a set of Capistrano recipes in his GitHub repository for setting up a slice. Could be worth a look.

While I still use deprec for a lot of things, Phusion Passenger has made installing a Rails stack so simple I find it easier to maintain a simple list of commands. I use this on Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) amd64

apt-get install build-essential git-core mysql-client apache2 apache2-prefork-dev libapr1-dev libmysqlclient15-dev librmagick-ruby libmagick9-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev imagemagick libcurl4-openssl-dev libreadline-ruby1.8

wget http://rubyenterpriseedition.googlecode.com/files/ruby-enterprise_1.8.7-2011.02_amd64_ubuntu10.04.deb
dpkg -i ruby-enterprise_1.8.7-2011.02_amd64_ubuntu10.04.deb

gem install passenger bundler
passenger-install-apache2-module --auto

# Copy configs generated by previous command to 
#   /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.{load,conf}

a2enmod passenger
a2enmod rewrite
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart