Possibly going slightly around the houses, but I'm sure similar to other developers who have started using ASP.Net MVC, I've recently started setting up and taking a look into Ruby On Rails . Only had an quick look so far, and had a read through the rails guides to get started - but already can see why it's proved such a popular environment for web development, how it's influenced the development of ASP.Net MVC, and how it's come to promote the MVC pattern more widely in web development circles. Also probably oddly for a RoR developer, but similar to others from a Microsoft background, I'm running Vista. There are some useful posts out there for setting up RoR on Vista , but as I found a few issues that weren't covered figured it worth noting here. MySQL Setup Whilst setting up Rails I also installed MySQL to use as the database. The link provided above provides all the details for installing this. Note though that when it comes to configuring the inst...
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