Adding some comments here, these are preliminary steps and may reflect how I structure the includes.

bin/capify

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 
 require 'optparse'
+require 'fileutils'
 
 OptionParser.new do |opts|
   opts.banner = "Usage: #{File.basename($0)} [path]"
@@ -45,6 +46,21 @@ files = {
     set :application, "set your application name here"
     set :repository,  "set your repository location here"
 
+    # If you have previously been relying upon the code to start, stop 
+    # and restart your mongrel application, or if you rely on the database
+    # migration code, please uncomment the lines you require below
+    
+    # require 'recipes/rails/mongrel'
+    # require 'recipes/rails/migrations'
+    # require 'recipes/rails/passenger_mod_rails'
+    
+    # There are also new utility libaries shipped with the core these 
+    # include the following, please see individual files for more
+    # documentation, or run `cap -T` with the following lines commented out
+    # to see what they make available.
+    
+    # require 'recipes/apache'
+
     # If you aren't deploying to /u/apps/\#{application} on the target
     # servers (which is the default), you can specify the actual location
     # via the :deploy_to variable:
@@ -68,7 +84,9 @@ files.each do |file, content|
   elsif File.exists?(file.downcase)
     warn "[skip] `#{file.downcase}' exists, which could conflict with `#{file}'"
   elsif !File.exists?(File.dirname(file))
-    warn "[skip] directory `#{File.dirname(file)}' does not exist"
+    FileUtils.mkdir(File.dirname(file))
+    retry
+    warn "[skip] directory `#{File.dirname(file)}' did not exist, created."
   else
     puts "[add] writing `#{file}'"
     File.open(file, "w") { |f| f.write(content) }