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Asked: 2026-05-12T17:14:09+00:00

The Scenario I am a C#/ASP.NET/MVC/Silverlight developer with a few years experience. I’m trying

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The Scenario

I am a C#/ASP.NET/MVC/Silverlight developer with a few years experience. I’m trying to kickstart my Ruby On Rails learning. I’m currently trying to get a real feel for ROR.

I Want To Know Standards

As a .Net developer, you tend to use a standard IDE (Visual Studio), a few standard databases (SQL Server, Oracle etc.), and a particular way in which to style your web 2.0 application (XHTML/CSS, Silverlight etc.)

‘So what are the standard equivalents to these in RUBY ON RAILS!? (IDE, DB’s, Presentation Layer Markups)’

Also

What route do I take? I’ve heard about IronRuby and from what i’ve read thats nearly complete in terms of converting it for use with Rails (IronRuby on Rails). OR Do I just go straight into using Ruby On Rails!?

What Benefits?

How will I be benefited from using IronRuby on Rails over using Ruby On Rails?

Help greatly appreciated thanks.

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    IDE

    Most RoR developers use a simple text editor (Textmate on MacOS, Scite on Windows) – mostly because most features (Refactoring, Code Completion) of IDEs designed for languages like Java/C# can’t be applied that easily on a dynmic language like Ruby. However Netbeans does well so far (on the other hand there is Aptana Studio – based on Eclipse).

    Databases

    Since RoR does a lot of abstraction it doesn’t really matter what RDBMS you use. MySQL and Postgres might be the best choices since they are the most used ones (so you can hope for continuous support). I wouldn’t start to chose based on the flamewar about performance, rather on the services/support that come with them.

    Markup

    The standard would be ERB (similar to ASP inline scripts) combined with (X)HTML. However there are other markups like HAML which might be enough for some projects.

    Benefits

    Using IronRuby you get access to the .NET framework and interop with other .NET libraries. You might also write some parts of your application in static C#. According to some benchmarks it might be “faster” than native Ruby, not a real advantage though IMHO.

    At the moment I would recommend you to get started with regular RubyOnRails – you might be able to switch later on (once IronRoR is stable enough) – if you should still desire to switch.

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