My talk from the Epicenter 2010 conference about the differences between ASP.NET MVC and Ruby on Rails.

1. ASP.NET MVC
Vs.
Ruby on Rails
Shay Friedman
shay@ironshay.com
http://IronShay.com
@ironshay

5. The Internet

8. ASP/ASP.NET
PHP
ColdFusion
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14. ASP.NET MVC
Vs.
Ruby on Rails
Shay Friedman
Dynamic Languages Leader
shay@ironshay.com
http://IronShay.com
@ironshay

16. Agenda
• Introduction
• Main Concepts
• D-E-M-O
• Getting Started
• Q&A
• Summary

17. Introduction – Ruby on Rails
• Started by David Heinemeier Hansson from 37signals
• Released to the public on 2004 and gained
popularity on 2006
• Current version is 2.3.8

18. Introduction – ASP.NET MVC
• Created by Microsoft.
• Released to the public on 2009
• Current version is 2.0

19. Main Concepts
• MVC
Model
View Controller

20. Main Concepts
• Model-View-Controller
• REST and Routing
http://mysite.com/books/show/1
BooksController show method Id = 1

21. Main Concepts
• Model-View-Controller
• REST and Routing
• DRY

22. Main Concepts
• Model-View-Controller
• REST and Routing
• DRY
• CoC

23. Main Concepts
• Model-View-Controller
• REST and Routing
• DRY
• CoC
• Testability

24. Main Concepts
• Model-View-Controller
• REST and Routing
• DRY
• CoC
• Testability
• Extensibility

25. DEMO

26. Getting Started
• Ruby on Rails
o http://rubyonrails.org
• ASP.NET MVC
o http://asp.net/mvc
• Ruby
o http://ruby-lang.org
• IronRuby
o http://IronRuby.net

27. Q&A

28. Battle Summary

29. Thank You!
Shay Friedman
shay@ironshay.com
http://IronShay.com
@ironshay