Just finished upgrading to WordPress 3.1. Process was pretty easy since I’m using my familiar Ruby tools.

• Rake – used to download the latest wordpress
• rsync – used to sync the latest files. Good because it will do a “copy over”
• cap and moonshine – once everything is working locally I can do a `cap deploy` and moonshine makes sure everything is configured on the server

A bit overkill for personal blogs but it makes it easy to stay up-to-date with security releases.