The document discusses making ASP.NET development more like Ruby on Rails by following principles of Rails such as DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself), Convention Over Configuration, and Separation of Concerns. It promotes using ASP.NET MVC, Migrator.NET, FluentNHibernate, Spark View Engine, and FluentValidation to increase productivity and ease of development and maintenance while adhering to best practices. A quick overview of Rails is followed by examining what a Rails-like approach means for ASP.NET and the tools that comprise the recommended stack.