[jwedgwood]

Yeah, we relied on hoptoad as our backstop too. We used CruiseControl.rb running on a cheap low end server with a plugin for doing deployments.

https://github.com/thoughtworks/cruisecontrol.rb https://github.com/aentos/ccrb_cap_deployer

The code is simple to understand, self contained, based around rake, and worked almost immediately for us (after some configuration). We were a two person team. I don't know if the setup we had would have worked with a larger team.

It felt like it made an impact in our ability to turn code faster. We had a solid test suite, which helped.