cheap and easy way to manage crontab with cap

deploy.rb

# the simplest thing that could work...

desc 'install crontab from config/crontab.txt'
task :install_crontab, :roles => :cron_runner, :except => { :no_release => true, :no_symlink => true } do
  run "cd #{current_release}; crontab config/crontab.txt"
end