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If you’re keeping your Rails application in a source code repository, Tobias Luetke has a script for retrieving the code, running its tests in a deployment directory and copying it to the target directory. All guided by a simple YAML configuration file at ~/.deployrc.

To keep Hieraki fresh:

 hieraki:
   server: linux
   get: svn export svn://myserver/hieraki/trunk
   directory: /var/www/applications/hieraki
   test: RAILS_ENV=production rake

   after_test:
     - chmod 777 log/
     - chmod 666 log/*

   after_commit:
     - sudo /etc/init.d/apache reload   

You can likewise checkout from RubyForge CVS with a hack like:

 get: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@rubyforge.org:/var/cvs/bugtrack 
      export -D now bugtrack; mv bugtrack

I wonder: can RubyGems be easily scripted to pull from CVS or Subversion? Better, I wonder if ViewCVS could be easily hacked to generate snapshot gems? Easily?