My recollection is that this is what many Capistrano setups were doing under the covers. Capistrano was just an orchestration framework for executing commands across multiple machines.
More than that, I worked for many enterprises that were using Rails but had their own infrastructure conventions and requirements, and were unable or unwilling to explore tools like Capistrano or (later) Heroku.
More than that, I worked for many enterprises that were using Rails but had their own infrastructure conventions and requirements, and were unable or unwilling to explore tools like Capistrano or (later) Heroku.