In Part I, I talked about my approach to deploying a website and I offered pear and subversion as solutions to the problem. To briefly elaborate on my subversion part, I want to share the following Capistrano recipe with you.

He shows how to set up a sample "capfile" with the commands to perform for his deployment - checking out a release and, using a symlink to change the location, deploy the latest version of the site. He briefly mentions some chaining the tool allows.