[mscarborough]

> One of the interesting things about doing Passenger deployments for Rails is that it's very similar to doing PHP deploys, with the added benefit of the server not reloading any application code until you tell it to.

You can get this with PHP's APC opcode caching with file_stat turned off. You deploy and when you're ready you clear the opcode cache.

Or if you want to deploy and clear, then add that to your deploy script. Done.