Disable deploying to your database server in Capistrano

Update: I found a better way, see below
I use Capistrano to not only manage deployment tasks, but also to do lots of data management and monitoring tasks. By default Capistrano will try to deploy your code to whatever server you have set to the :db role, and will try to run the migrations there too. [...]

Complex forms, mass assignment, and the “presenter”

I’m fed up with doing a bunch of complex model aggregation in my controllers. They are too bloated. Here’s a set of links I’m trying to make sense of as I decide what to do:

http://validatable.rubyforge.org/
http://pastie.textmate.org/pastes/134685
http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/02/ruby-forwardable-addition.html
http://www.brynary.com/2007/4/8/fluent-interface-for-ruby-delegation
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/1/11/moving-associated-creations-to-the-model
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core/browse_thread/thread/3c61e00916c365e5?pli=1
http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/7/19/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-nested-models

Seems like if you can avoid building an extra Presenter model and keep everything in your Rails models you’re better off, [...]