Hey Guys,

First all, finally i found a group of .Net developers moving towards ruby, for some reason its seems .net developers are more in their ways then java developers. Second, I was wondering if someone wanted to collaborate about working on a series of articles on a kinda of. C# and Asp .net to Ruby on rails. If not I would at least like to contribute and help the .net community/rails community.

Cheers, Cameron Singe www.camocarzi.com

Hi Cameron,

Welcome to Ruby! I think you’re right about Java developers move to Rails more easily than .Net developers. I’m not sure why that is. Perhaps that’s exactly the kind of topic you could blog about. That’s probably the best way to start contributing – start blogging about your personal experiences of using Ruby and Rails.

I believe the main reason it is much easier for Java developers is that the patterns that Rails follows are close to the patterns that are generally accepted in the Java development community. MVC, Templates, ORM, etc. are all standard practice in Java, while the majority of .NET developers don’t understand or use these patterns. Someone else said it best on this board: probably half of .NET developers don’t understand how a web request hits their code.

.NET developers who understand and use these concepts have no problem switching to Rails, but for the rest you really need to start at ground level and explain all of these patterns first.

-James