Question

In our system most of the code is in an asp.net (2.0) web site, I discovered Castle Monorail a few month ago and I think it’s really easier to use than asp.net / webforms.

Here is what we need :
– Use Castle Monorail
– Our code must be in the website (my chief is a kind of old school web developer so he prefer to have some “.cs” files than one “.dll”).
– We have to keep the existing webforms code

So maybe if you have a tutorial or something like that (I found a lot of tutorial about asp.net MVC and castle monorail but I did find any with asp.net 2.0)/

Merci les collegues

Answer 1

So it was pretty simple (15 min top) :

1/ Get the element that you need from web.config :
– config section handler

<section name="monorail" type="Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Configuration.MonoRailSectionHandler, Castle.MonoRail.Framework" />

-Configuration itself

  <monorail>
    <controllers>
      <assembly>App_Code</assembly>
      <assembly>Castle.Monorail.ViewComponents</assembly>

    </controllers>
    <viewEngines viewPathRoot="Views">
      <add type="Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Views.NVelocity.NVelocityViewEngine, Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Views.NVelocity" />
    </viewEngines>
  </monorail>

“App_Code” is the name of the web site assembly.

-http handlers

<add verb="*" path="*.rails" type="Castle.MonoRail.Framework.MonoRailHttpHandlerFactory, Castle.MonoRail.Framework" />
      <!--block direct user access to template files-->
      <add verb="*" path="*.vm" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />
      <add verb="*" path="*.boo" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />
      <add verb="*" path="*.st" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />

-http modules

<add name="monorail" type="Castle.MonoRail.Framework.EngineContextModule, Castle.MonoRail.Framework" />

2/ Take the dll that you need, in my case (I don’t use activerecord) :

Castle.Components.Binder.dll

Castle.Components.Common.EmailSender.dll

Castle.Components.Common.TemplateEngine.dll

Castle.Components.Common.TemplateEngine.NVelocityTemplateEngine.dll

Castle.Components.Validator.dll

Castle.Core.dll

Castle.MonoRail.Framework.dll

Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Views.NVelocity.dll

Castle.MonoRail.ViewComponents.dll

3/ Add a class in your App_Code folder (for instance TestMonorailController) :

using Castle.MonoRail.Framework;

public class TestMonorailController : SmartDispatcherController
{
    public TestMonorailController()
    {

    }
    public void OnePage()
    {
        PropertyBag["toto"] = "TEST";
    }
}

4/ Add a Views folder in the root of your website
5/ Add a TestMonorail folder in the folder you just created
6/ Add a file name “OnePage.vm” in this folder :

$toto

7/ Test your website :

http://localhost:XX/YourWebSite/TestMonorail/OnePage.rails

and you should see

“TEST”

Et voila 🙂 I can edit my production code. Thx Ken