Where do you put your app-config-files when deploying rails with capistrano and svn

I have two config-files

/app/config/database.yml

and

/app/config/userconfig.yml

i don't want to put the database credentials and userconfig in the svn-repository, so i have database.yml.dist and userconfig.yml.dist checked in.

What is the best way to get copys of the dist-files in the shared-directory when deploying the app for the first time?

For later deploys i'll link to them from /app/current/config

From stackoverflow

• You should place your config files in

  /path/to/deployed_app/shared
  

  Then in a capistrano task, sym link to those files:

  namespace :deploy do
    task :symlink_shared do
      run "ln -s #{shared_path}/database.yml #{release_path}/config/"
    end
  end
  
  before "deploy:restart", "deploy:symlink_shared"