Rails-like ASP.NET
Development
Presented by Curtis Mitchell
e: curtis@curtismitchell.com t: curtis_mitchell

What is Rails?
• A Ruby-based MVC web application
framework
• reusable components
• productive
• driven by principles

Don’t Repeat Yourself
(DRY)

Convention Over
Configuration

Separation of Concerns

Fun!
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A quick look at Rails
Cut to some code...

Rails-like ASP.NET
What does that mean?
• Using best great .NET tools to increase
productivity and ease development and
maintenance
• Emphasis on being productive
• Adhere to the principles in your
development cycle

The Stack
• ASP.NET MVC
• Migrator.NET
• FluentNHibernate
• Spark View Engine
• FluentValidation

The Stack
ASP.NET MVC
http://www.asp.net/mvc
Migrator.NET
http://code.google.com/p/migratordotnet
FluentNHibernate
http://www.fluentnhibernate.org
Spark View Engine
http://www.sparkviewengine.com
FluentValidation
http://fluentvalidation.codeplex.com