This is a work in progress. I work on this when I have time to test server deployments

What is this? Basically, I'm using this as a template to automate setup on an ubuntu server

Why am I doing this? I'm trying to automate some of the steps found on the Slicehost wiki so all that a user can do to set up a vps is to type cap install

How am I doing this? I'm using several sources, such as the wonderful articles at http://articles.slicehost.com/ubuntu-gutsy and also Geoffrey Grosenbach's peepserver script and lastly the Deprec Gem as inspiration. I'm using VMWare fusion as a test server, with the freeze and revert commands to test the install from beginning to end

Isn't this a duplicate of the Deprec efforts? Yes, it is. I want to teach myself unix scripting integrating with Ruby. I'll probably merge my changes with deprec at a point.

What's the endgame? A stack that installs mysql, nginx, capistrano, ruby, rails, and other useful programs at a point. I plan on using Ubuntu server because I like the simplicity of the apt-get system.