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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:08:40+00:00

Today, I came a cross a blog post for David Hayden explaining why he

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Today, I came a cross a blog post for David Hayden explaining why he thinks ASP.NET MVC developers should learn Ruby on Rails.
Some of the reasons David mentioned:

  • ASP.NET MVC was inspired by Rails and in order for me to be a smarter ASP.NET MVC Developer I feel like I need to know Rails.
  • IronRuby is well on its way to being released which has got me excited about learning a new language, Ruby.
  • I really, really like Cucumber and RSpec and would love to use them for BDD via IronRuby on my ASP.NET MVC C# Projects.
  • I think it would be cool to develop ASP.NET MVC Web Application using Ruby via IronRuby.

What do you think guys? Is it really important for ASP.NET MVC developers to learn Ruby on Rails? If we are evaluating this option on a scale of 5 degrees ( Urgent-Important, Urgent-Not Important, Not Urgent-Important, Not Urgent-Not Important, A Total Waste of Time), what would your choice be guys, hopefully you will mention some benefits resulting from your experience working with both. Some articles, blog-posts on that subject are totally appreciated.
PS: There’s a real use-case for this stuff, as my team leader is offering some courses on the house, and I was really considering Ruby on Rails.

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    I would disagree that ASP.NET was inspired by RoR.

    Not Urgent-Not Important

    That said I have used RoR and its great, but it will not help you become a better ASP.NET MVC programmer any more than learning other technology or tools.

    It is always good to learn something new to broaden your abilities.

    So my answer is yes learn Ruby on rails because you will be a better programmer for it, just not a better ASP.NET MVC programmer 🙂

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