This document discusses why Ruby on Rails is a productive framework from the perspective of a .NET developer. Some key advantages of Rails according to the document are: 1) Scaffolding allows generating controller actions, views, models, and database schema with one command, saving development time. 2) Rails makes routing, email handling, and AJAX implementation easy and intuitive. 3) Rails supports three environments (development, test, production) out of the box and includes migrations for database changes. 4) Rails has a rich ecosystem of plugins and gems that can be easily installed to add common functionality.

1. Why RuBY ON RAILS Rocksfrom .net DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

2. Personal experience “Recent” productivity jump thanks to Asp.net MVC + jQuery (http://weekplan.net) Railscasts videos and TeachMeToCode videos while commuting After three weeks of learning, I felt I was more productive in RoR than in Asp.net / Asp.net MVC

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4. Glad you asked Why does RoR rock?

5. No wasteful compile time

6. Scaffolding Generate controller actions / views / models / database schema in one command

7. Easy routing

8. Emailing the way it should be Model: notifier.rb View: notifier/message_notification.erb Usage

9. Three environments out of the box

10. Migrations

11. Gems / Plugins system gem install authlogic ruby ./script/plugin install http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/calendar_helper

12. Open Source community GitHub.com easy A/B testing (abingo) easy postmark lib (postmark-rails) easy paging (will_paginate) easy RpxNow lib (rpx_now) easy amazon s3 upload (aws-s3) easy full text search (texticle)

13. Testing framework autotest Run the related tests in the background when a file is modified

14. Heroku Cloud solution for ruby on rails Can add and remove modules Database Emailing Exception notification Performance monitoring Gem installation Full text search Super easy deployment > deploy “Fixed a typo in about us page”

15. Easy Ajax _form.html.erb application.js – AJAX SPECIFIC feedback_controller.rb create.js.erb – AJAX SPECIFIC

16. Elegant validation

17. Easy authentication loggedin? current_user

18. Free Works on free operating systems Out of the box databases are free too IDEs are not necessary For a proper IDE: RubyMine from jetBrains Open source mindset People are more inclined to open source something rather than try to make money out of their code.

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