Crazy Idea

Right, but I also don't have a host that supports Subversion easily (although I've heard of some free places).

What needs supported? A subversion repository is a just directory with a bunch of files in it. They would have to run one command to make your repo:

svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /home/kopf1988/svn/repo1

Then you would run one command to check it out:

svn co kopf1988@somehost:~/svn/repo1 repo1

After that it's just svn up, svn st, and svn ci which are your update, stat, and commit commands that you would use day to day. You could put those on a post-it until you remember them.

Also, as for just synchronizing the folders, I should note that the two computers are never on the same network. They use two differnt ISPs, always. Pretend my laptop is in florida while my home computer is in california. (or Sydney and New York, lol).

So? Subversion wouldn't care if you were committing changes from the moon.

I've heard of WinSCP... might that work just to keep the folders synchronized?

No idea, I'm M$ free for nearly 5 years now.

I think the subversion idea is almost giving me a headache... it took me weeks just to get GoDaddy and RoR to work, lol.

I don't want to have to learn something new so soon after that headache.

I don't mean to offend but have you considered a career as a non-programmer? This is what we do, day-in, day-out, everyday.. we learn new stuff. Considering everything you've said up to now, I think you're in for a lot more pain otherwise.

Ouch. No, I'm a programmer at heart... just a programmer with no money. IE i can't make things work like that... like my host would ever create a subversion repository for me pfft.

Sheesh. In the 8 years since 6th grade (i'm young) I've transitioned from HTML to javascript to vbscript to vb to java to perl/cgi to ruby/ cgi to RoR. In the meantime I've also picked up some CSS and php. There's probably a few more things that I've learned but can't think of right now.

I'd say I deserve a short break from learning new things ^_^. That's at least 1 new language every year... not to mention IDE changes (or lack of anything more than notepad), getting a good host, and designing several websites in the meantime.

Sincerely,

Ryan

For others having a hard time making the plunge to using subversion after initial reads I found a series of web casts that explain it yet again and show someone using it.

http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=950000&fromSeriesID=95

I'm came to subversion through http://www.googlecode.com/ and it's just blown me away with how amazing subversion is and how handy it is that google made it as easy as possible.

-Thufir

Well, I replied to an earlier post in this thread, but:

http://www.googlecode.com/

-Thufir