The brightbox gem supports the multistage features of Capistrano.
If you add:
require 'capistrano/ext/multistage'
to the top of your config/deploy.rb file you will have staging support.
staging and production into config/deploy/staging.rb and config/deploy/production.rb respectively.cap staging deploy
set :branch, 'staging' set :rails_env, 'staging' set :domain, "staging.myapp.mydomain.com" server "staging.myapp.mydomain.com", :app, :web, :db, :primary => true