Someone on #rubyonrails asked a question the other day, whether there was a capistrano task to open a script/console over ssh on the remote server. Such a brilliant idea that I asked him to fill me in if he found it - and he did, here
Instead of having to open an ssh session, and cd to the right dir, and fire up script/console you can just use the cap task from the comfort of your project dir on your local machine:
cap remote:console
Something which I came up against fairly early on in my Capistrano use was the problem of releasing from tags or branches in SVN. My normal development process for a large release is to tag the trunk, and then release from the tag. Then there are other times when I have a long-running branch that I want released as well. These posed some problems for Capistrano because the repository location was baked right into the deployment scripts.
