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Ruby-on-Rails Capabilities in ASP.NET

It's great to see that ASP.NET tools are finally surfacing that leverage the same code-generation capabilities as Ruby-on-Rails.  ASP.NET ActionPack (http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=actionpack) is one such example that builds data-access and presentation scaffolding.  Like RoR, ASP.NET ActionPack will automatically build admin screens for all your basic CRUD fuctionality; unlike RoR, ASP.NET ActionPack will even look for foreign keys within your DB schema and provide drop-down options to populate those foreign key values.  What the 10-minute webcast does not show is how to add methods to a pre-generated class - I'll assume/suggest partial classes are leveraged here.  Additionally, it does not go into details concerning modifications to the presentation scaffolding.  But overall, it looks to be headed in the right direction and I look forward to seeing how it evolves.

Billy

Print posted @ Monday, August 28, 2006 1:16 PM

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# re: Ruby-on-Rails Capabilities in ASP.NET

Gravatar Hi Billy,
I watched a video on RoR and I have to admit that I didn't realy like it as much as many did. Yet, I still love the idea of course, and even worked before with ".NET Tiers" generated classes and admin pages and experienced how to customize them. Later, switched to "llBlGen" in my new company which doesn't generate admin pages, but has very powerful class library generated that we didn't take so long to create the pages (we had non-comomn flow and business rules too, so, it wasn't a big deal to create the pages from scratch). But, for the future, I used to believe that Microsoft "BlinQ" is the right solution for the future, not RoR or whatever else. It's built on LINQ developed by Microsoft, so, ... sure you get what I mean!
I wander, why not just help in BlinQ as people help in ATLAS instead of creating the whole thing again from scratch?? The owner of the BlinQ project is a cool girl as it seemed from an interview in Channel9, and the project gets better and highlighted every while, so, it's really promising. 8/28/2006 4:42 PM | Mohamed Ahmed Meligy

# re: Ruby-on-Rails Capabilities in ASP.NET

Gravatar Hi Billy,
I watched a video on RoR and I have to admit that I didn't realy like it as much as many did. Yet, I still love the idea of course, and even worked before with ".NET Tiers" generated classes and admin pages and experienced how to customize them. Later, switched to "llBlGen" in my new company which doesn't generate admin pages, but has very powerful class library generated that we didn't take so long to create the pages (we had non-comomn flow and business rules too, so, it wasn't a big deal to create the pages from scratch). But, for the future, I used to believe that Microsoft "BlinQ" is the right solution for the future, not RoR or whatever else. It's built on LINQ developed by Microsoft, so, ... sure you get what I mean!
I wander, why not just help in BlinQ as people help in ATLAS instead of creating the whole thing again from scratch?? The owner of the BlinQ project is a cool girl as it seemed from an interview in Channel9, and the project gets better and highlighted every while, so, it's really promising. 8/28/2006 4:44 PM | Mohamed Ahmed Meligy

# re: Ruby-on-Rails Capabilities in ASP.NET

Gravatar Hi again,
I've written more about my idea in my blog. You may check it there (I just needed to add some links in my prev. reply and this didn't seem to work here, so, I ended with the post somehow!)
Here's the link (if it didn't appear, click on my name above and you'll likely find it in the front of the blog):
http://geekswithblogs.net/mohamed/archive/2006/08/29/89575.aspx 8/28/2006 6:44 PM | Mohamed Ahmed Meligy

# re: Ruby-on-Rails Capabilities in ASP.NET

Gravatar I recall reading about Blinq but couldn't remember the name of it when I wrote my post yesterday...if I do anything with ASP.NET generators, it would most likely be with Blinq in the future. Although, it's still nice to see that other alternatives are available.

I've always heard great things about llBlGen...I've got to try that out.

Billy 8/29/2006 6:16 AM | Billy

# re: Ruby-on-Rails Capabilities in ASP.NET

Gravatar Why always the example is a small application?, if really this tool is powerfull why not a more complex example. 11/24/2006 5:12 AM | Ofertas de Empleo

# re: Ruby-on-Rails Capabilities in ASP.NET

Gravatar I'm sure they still have a lot of work to do...but I'm glad to see the direction it's going. 11/25/2006 7:55 AM | Billy
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