Mapping Rails to ASP.NET 3.5

If you’ve done some rails work like I have, and are getting started with looking at ASP.NET MVC for your .NET work; or you are a .NET guy, and looking at rails for the first time, you will want to see which technologies are available to do things in each platform. I hope the following chart is helpful:

Feature	Rails Technology	ASP.NET 3.5 Technology
Model View Controller architecture	Rails Core (Action Controllers, Views)	ASP.NET MVC
Domain model from relational database	Active Record	ADO.NET Entity Framework
REST	Active Resource	ADO.NET Data Services
Markup language for MVC frameworks	HAML	NHAML
Build platform	Rake	MSBuild

~ by jayme on April 7, 2008.