Ok, so I admit it. Im late to the game as far as using capistrano for deployment of my rails applications.
But I figured, today is a nice rainy day and a great opportunity to give this a shot. Below is the play by play for getting capistrano set up to work.
Im going to make some initial assumptions. First, you are using subversion.
Second, you want to be able to deploy to different environments, (in my case Staging and Production).
Third, you are using a shared hosting environment, using Phusion Passenger
Fourth, you are running your deployment for a linux machine. What follows below assumes Ubuntu in particular.
Fifth, and finally, you like reading verbose posts about technology on random blogs that you come across 'dem internet tubes.
So follow me inside, for more on deploying your ruby on rails application with Capistrano

Step 1 - Download Adobe Reader from the Adobe website.

Get Adobe Reader

Step 2 - Run The Binary you just downloaded

For my machine the binary file is AdbeRdr9.1.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin but it may be different for you depending on your machine. This is the command to run the binary. Note that I am in the same directory that I downloaded the file into.

sudo ./AdbeRdr9.1.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin

You will be prompted to choose an installation directory (or just hit return if your fine with the default) and then you will see the output listed below.

Extracting files, please wait. (This may take a while depending on the configuration of your machine)

This installation requires 145 MB of free disk space.

Enter installation directory for Adobe Reader 9.1.2 [/opt]  
/opt

Installing platform independent files ... Done
Installing platform dependent files ... Done
Setting up libraries ... Done
Setting up desktop and menu icons ... Done
Setting up the browser plugin ... Done

Once its done you should now have a working version of Adobe Reader on your linux box.

To run Adobe Reader simply type "acroread" from the command line and Adobe Reader will launch. You can also launch it from the Applications -> Office Menu. The first time you run it you will be presented with Adobe's EULA, after accepting it, you are free to run Adobe Reader.

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^site_media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/path/to/media'}),
    )

Why wouldn't you use the MEDIA_ROOT variable from settings.py? Granted this may not be the biggest issue, but if given the choice, I think my preference would be to keep the settings for the application in settings.py, you know the file for application settings. Yes I know this shouldn't be used outside of development, but still wonder what the advantage of doing it this way would be...

Below is the code I am currently using,

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^site_media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
    )

No this not the start of a TJA (Technology Junkie Annonomous) meeting but it could be. I like to discuss a wide range of topics from candy to living in Japan but Ill save those for other blogs. This blog, the one you are ready right now, is for the good old boring exciting world of Software Development and anything else related to Technology that strikes my fancy. Hope you enjoy the ride!