It makes me cringe to think that I used to espouse a write-code-first-test-them-later approach that I mistakenly called "TDD." Ugh . (see the latter part of the post ) I haven't been doing MonoRail lately too. Maybe because MonoRail hasn't seen much in the way of progress or innovation since ASP.NET...
Hammett of the Castle Project says the MonoRail scaffolding support is OK; maybe you can get it to work. In my case I wasn't [:(] For those who don't know, scaffolding is a great way to quickly prototype web sites. You simply code the model (e.g. using ActiveRecord) then all you have to do in the controller...
you can download them here: PowerPoint presentation Demo Video 1 (basic view/controller) Demo Video 2 (with basic model c/o ActiveRecord) Demo Video 3 (filters, UserController) Demo Video 4 (CRUD) it's on rapidshare.de's free repository, so the files will get deleted if no one downloads them in 30 days...
rodel posted some counter-arguments to using MonoRail in his blog post , and i guess i just can't resist responding. basically MVC is not a feature, but a way to do apps. in the end the main concern is separation of concerns. users don't care if the software they're using is MVC or not. as long as it...