Woohoo.
Finally i’ve gotten my private ruby project running in RadRails, using SubVersion (over http) on dreamhost and deploying using Capistrano(aka SwitchTower).
Thanks very much to this resource: http://nubyonrails.com/pages/shovel_dreamhostÂ
I still have a small issue with my dispatch.fcgi being not executable after deployment, but I suspect that will be fixed with a after installation task.
I might write up my minor mods to the process. Or probably not