How to deploy resque workers in production?

The GitHub guys recently released their background processing app which uses Redis: http://github.com/defunkt/resque http://github.com/blog/542-introducing-resque

I have it working locally, but I'm struggling to get it working in production. Has anyone got a:

1. Capistrano recipe to deploy workers (control number of workers, restarting them, etc)
2. Deployed workers to separate machine(s) from where the main app is running, what settings were needed here?
3. gotten redis to survive a reboot on the server (I tried putting it in cron but no luck)
4. how did you work resque-web (their excellent monitoring app) into your deploy?

Thanks!

P.S. I posted an issue on Github about this but no response yet. Hoping some SO gurus can help on this one as I'm not very experienced in deployments. Thank you!