Getting Started

Capistrano was originally written to ease the pain of deploying Rails applications. Although it can be (and is) used for a lot more than that now, Rails application deployment is still the primary way that most people use Capistrano, at least initially.

As a result, this “Getting Started” guide will actually be multiple guides in one. If you feel there is an essential guide missing from this section, please email jamis at 37signals dot com and let him know what you think needs to be added.