Best practices for deploying tools & scripts to production?

Question

I\'ve got a number of batch processes that run behind the scenes for a Linux/PHP website. They are starting to grow in number and complexity, so I want to bring a small amount o

Answer 1

The first thing to do is get all these scripts into a source control repository (svn or git are good) so that you can track changes to these scripts over time.

If you are interested in ruby, check out Capistrano, it is well suited deploying things to multiple machines in a cluster, and is fairly easy to set up. It can read files directly from your version control system.