Nice and eloquent reply, thank you. I'll look at RoR again after messing about with Capistrano years ago.

1Password not only works on the Mac, but it also syncs fairly easy with the same named application on your iPhone. So you have all your passwords encrypted with you, all the time!

nice, thanks for re-sharing

Wait, just how long have you been a /. reader? You just sounded like a newbee ;-)