I am using rails and capistrano with a staging and production server. I need

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I am using rails and capistrano with a staging and production server. I need

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I am using rails and capistrano with a staging and production server. I need to be able to copy the production database to the staging database when I deploy to staging. Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

I thought about doing this with mysql and something like:

before "deploy:migrate" do
  run "mysqldump -u root #{application}_production > output.sql"
  run "mysql -u root #{application}_staging < output.sql"
end

(I have not tested this btw, so not sure it would even work)
but it would be easier / better if there was another way.

Thanks for any help