title: Capistrano Deploy Wipes Database?
body: <p>I've managed to deploy my app to production using Capistrano, but I don't understand how to deal with my database.  I'm using subversion and passenger.</p>
  
  <p>When I run cap deploy, the new deployment starts everything fresh.  It wipes out the data that was added to the database.  Obviously, there must be a solution, but I'm very surprised not to find anything online about how to deal with this.  I've read the Capistrano documentation and many tutorials.  </p>
  
  <p>The best I can find is the Advanced Rails recipes books, which talks about putting user-generated content into the shared directory, but it's not exactly on point.  </p>
  
  <p>How do you deal with your database when deploying with Capistrano?</p>