MonoRails, loving it
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