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It is amazing! I'll leave that previous post just in case anyone ever needs to create an ECO object instance first and then connect it with an EcoSpace afterwards, but you don't need it for MonoRail! public void Join([EcoDataBind("User")]User user) { PropertyBag["User"] = user; if (this.Params["User.FirstName"] != null) { GetErrors(user.AsIObject(), Errors); if (Context.Params["ConfirmEmailAddress"] != user.EmailAddress) Errors.Add("Email address confirmation does not match email address."); if (Errors.Count == 0) { //TODO EcoSpace.UpdateDatabase(); Redirect("Account", "Home"); }//No errors } } That's all there is to it now! I have created a small set of classes to enable ECO support in MonoRail. Instead of descending your controllers from SmartDispatcherController you will now descend from EcoSmartDispatcherController . This gives the following abi...

So I didn't like Ruby on Rails much. More accurately I didn't like the Ruby language or ActiveRecord much, but the "Rails" part I really quite liked! So my investigation continues and I have found myself looking at MonoRails. MonoRails is what I would have as a child called "a rip off", but these days it is known as a "clone" :-) It's basically a .NET version of Rails, which obviously appeals to me because I liked the Model-View-Controller approach of Rails and I obviously like C#. MonoRails has its own version of ActiveRecord (which I shall be avoiding) and an interface into NHibernate too (which I haven't looked at in great depth, but it certainly doesn't look as powerful as ECO). So I have been trying to get MonoRails working with ECO instead. Considering I don't know MonoRails at all I am surprised at how quickly I managed to do what I wanted. Take the following controller method as an example, when the user visits localho...