Comments on: Monorail #1 : Reasons, Setup and First Output

By: Jason Meridth

Jason Meridth — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:37:33 +0000

@Joe

Thank you for that link.

I appreciate the support. Post about MonoRail anyway bro, another perspective is always good.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:57:47 +0000

Hey man, looks like a good post. You beat me to the punch, I’ve been working on a Monorail introduction myself. As for unit testing, that is actually no longer the recommended way to test. Check out this page http://using.castleproject.org/display/MR/TDDingControllers that shows the new recommendations for TDD with MR. The old way (inheriting from AbstractMRTestCase) is meant to be used internally.

Keep up the great posts!

Joe

By: Jason Meridth

Jason Meridth — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:46:21 +0000

I’m starting to feel the same way with just the little I’ve done so far. I may be tapping into your knowledge later Sean.

Thanks for the info.

By: Sean Chambers

Sean Chambers — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:00:22 +0000

I have to agree with Joey here. I have done about three projects with Windosor/MonoRail as well and I couldn’t imagine going back to WebForms. Someone would have to drag me kicking and screaming =)

By: Jason Meridth

Jason Meridth — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:54:27 +0000

Awesome!! Thanks Joey, I will check that BaseControllerTest class. I’m using the trunk. :)

I will head down the RoR path soon, but baby steps for me.

I look forward to any RoR posts from you in the future (hint, hint) :)

OSWD is awesome. Glad I could get that out there.

By: Joey Beninghove

Joey Beninghove — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:14:44 +0000

Good stuff. This should definitely help more folks to start using MonoRail. I’m currently on my 3rd “professional” MonoRail project and I can’t ever imagine having to go back to “classic” Web Forms.

Also, regarding unit testing, you’ll definitely want to check out the BaseControllerTest class (assuming you’re working from the trunk, which I *do* recommend). BaseControllerTest is a much better way to drive out your controllers via TDD and I’ve used it successfully on my last 2 projects.

Funny you mention RoR, because I’m actually in the process of learning Ruby (and Rails) on the side and I’ve just been blown away by it. I love the simplicity of MonoRail, but it truly is held down by being tied to the static languages of .NET. From what I’ve seen so far, that beauty in simplicity in RoR is 10-fold of what we can get with MonoRail on .NET.

Anyways, btw, thx for the tip/link to Open Source Web Design. Hadn’t seen them before. Looks like a great place for us creatively-challenged folks to get the design ideas bumping around in our heads.