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There’s a set of tutorials on how to deploy WordPress (source and DB) using Capistrano.

Part 1
| Part 2
| Part 3

Capistrano allows you to deploy WordPress installations from the command line. It was initially developed for Ruby on Rails apps, but it has the capability to deploy many other systems, apparently.

There’s information in the tutorials on:

  • setting up Capistrano
  • “capifying” WordPress
  • deploying to multiple servers
    (so you can, for instance, have test/staging/production
    environments)
  • using Capistrano to manage your WP databases (including backup & restore)

I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I’m really itching to.