Wow...thanks for all of the great feedback so far. I had a feeling there were better options than SVN out there. In fact, it was when I started looking into Git that I had the idea of taking some extra time to see if other elements of my environment would also benefit from an upgrade (ie my Apache & Mongrel setup). Sounds like that's the best place to begin improving to see an immediate benefit.
Peter mentioned Selenium which made me realize that I also have Watir in my toolbox for both testing and for navigating to pages for the purpose of scraping. I never tried Selenium but that might be something worth looking into as well. I didn't intend to start a debate of whether it was good practice to generate office documents as an output but I have projects that have required it in the past and I'm sure it will come up again in the future. Bob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.