On the AirPair site there's a recent post by Vincent Cardillo showing you how to set up Laravel deployments with Capistrano, a popular Ruby-based deployment automation tool.

Hello friends. In this article we will be discussing automating the deployment of Laravel applications using the Capistrano tool. If you don't know what some of these things are, read on. [...] Why should we bother setting up Capistrano? Can't we just deploy to our servers by hand? Sure, maybe, but this quickly becomes annoying with anything more than a few servers, and isn't a scalable process.

He starts by laying out some of the prerequisites you'll need to get the deployment working: a Laravel application installed, some familiarity with Git/GitHub and a Linux-based system to work from. He talks about two methods of deployment, push and pull, and includes a summary (and illustration) for each. From there he starts to get into the detailed steps of setting up the deployment itself:

• Protecting sensitive information (like configuration files)
• Installing Capistrano as a Ruby gem
• Setting up the SSH keys between systems
• Setting up the receiving server
• Setting up the Laravel project in a Capistrano deploy
• Creating the steps in the deployment workflow
• Doing the actual deployment

He includes all of the commands and configuration examples you'll need to make the deployment happen. He also finishes off with a few other things Capistrano could do for you including making a "sanity check" file and flushing memcache on deploy.