Yesterday I finally found some time to try out Ruby On Rails and in one word: amazing.
Two words? Amazingly fun! I was rolling within 2 minutes…
However, even though I wish for it, there’s little hope I’m able to start developing in a friendly dynamic environment like Smalltalk, Ruby or Python. Ours is a Microsoft shop and it’s either ASP or ASP.NET so when compared with the other option .Net isn’t that bad.
Only what to do? I want Rails for .Net too!!! So before I went to sleep last night I wrote “.Net on Rails” on a little piece of paper Imagining I might be able to cook up something myself. Today I found out the project already exists (MonoRail) as part of the Castle Project which incorporates a host of other neat projects such as NHibernate, NVelocity, Boo, Brain, various other projects and also a dependency injection framework.
Although it took me a few hours to get the Castle compiled and rolling this was only due to my own stupidity. I couldn’t even blame the documentation…