[joelhaasnoot]

While you can, I've found Capistrano is full of rubyisms and makes inferences. Sure it can all be changed, but needs a power user to really use it.

Couldn't get it to work myself due to various issues related to running DirectAdmin control panel, and protections against symlinks it has built in.

[jscheel]

I had never used capistrano before, and still managed to get it working for a node.js project, which also involved Mono, c#, several monit scripts, etc. My config file is pretty big, and the documentation wasn't awesome, but at least it's working. If you want automated deployment, it's definitely worth the effort.