Category Archives: MonoRail

MonoRail screencasts

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Jason Meridth

If you want a great into to MonoRail, check out Colin’s screencasts. I will possibly be re-writing my validation post. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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MonoRail #4: Validation

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Jason Meridth

This post was decided upon after watching Hammet‘s screencast on using attribute-based validation in MonoRail. *NOTE: I do not agree with embedding validation into the domain model.  I would prefer a service handle this, but I’m utilizing the validation that … Continue reading →

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MonoRail HotSwap

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Jason Meridth

Ayende (pronounced A-yend  (no eh at the end) – verified in this post after hearing Colin pronounce it) posted on an idea he has – MonoRail HotSwap and Colin Ramsay did a screencast of MonoRail HotSwap.  I know that the … Continue reading →

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NBehave Experiment: MonoRail Controllers & Rhino Mocks

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

…whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. — 1 John 2:5 Well I decided it was finally time I took a look at NBehave as … Continue reading →

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Monorail #3 : Unit Testing and ViewComponents

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Jason Meridth

UNIT TESTING After the past 2 1/2 posts I’ve migrated my unit tests to use the BaseControllerTest abstract class that originated from the Eleutian guys, but is now a part of the Castle MonoRail trunk download.Here is my ExampleControllerTests class: … Continue reading →

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Another Quick Tip: Asserting view renders in a MonoRail controller test

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

This is another one of those “blog it so I can remember it” posts. My last post about a similar tip was relating to asserting redirects in a MonoRail controller.  This one deals with asserting which view is being rendered in your … Continue reading →

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Building the often needed anti-corruption layer

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.  — Proverbs 1:7 “Agile Joe” and I were chatting about the challenges of building on top of existing application platforms, specifically ones like Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Monorail #0: Controllers

Posted on September 8, 2007 by Jason Meridth

One of the first things I should have posted:  How It Works This image is good for all you visual learners out there:  (from the Castle Project documentation) This will help us when we go to the next post on … Continue reading →

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Monorail #2 : Layouts & Rescues

Posted on September 8, 2007 by Jason Meridth

LAYOUTS UPDATED: Used the Code Snippet plug-in Layouts are like master pages or template pages in Adobe DreamWeaver.  They allow you to template your site.  I have a default.vm under my ../Views/layouts folder and the way to make a controller … Continue reading →

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Quick Tip: Asserting response redirects in a MonoRail controller test

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Joey Beninghove

Reading this post by Sean reminded me of when I first started using the trunk’s BaseControllerTest.  One nifty little property on the base test controller’s mock Response object is RedirectedTo.  So you can do something like this: 1: // some … Continue reading →

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