“A word of advice to all ASP.Net developers who read this, don’t use Ruby on Rails. It will only make you realize how bad you’ve got it ;)”

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I saw an interesting post by Daniel Parnell about how ASP.NET just wasn’t the same after trying Ruby on Rails for web application development. There is a fair amount of opinion about which is better and so far to me it seems that Ruby and Rails seems to have the upper hand as I’ve seen a number of developers make the switch from ASP.NET to Rails.

Personally I’ve never had any experience with ASP.NET and after reading many other developers comments about switching to rails, don’t really plan to either.

Also there is this talk by Dave Thomas at Railsconf 2006.

What’s your thoughts.

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Looking for an edge in Rails development? Want to fast track the Ruby on Rails learning curve? Well there is a way! Geoffrey Grosenbach from TopFunky.com has a website dedicated to providing high quality training video tutorials on everything Ruby on Rails at his site PeepCode.

There is one tutorial per month from mastering apps like Textmate and Capistrano to Test First Development and RJS Templates. Geoffrey is also well know for his Ruby on Rails podcast which you can get from iTunes. He also travels the world teaching all of us Nuby Rails developers on how to do things right so that makes him an authority on the subject.

I’m off to buy a couple of screencasts from Peepcode for the great price of only $9 each.

As a bit of a new comer to Rails development and an avid fan of the Apple Mac I have settled on using Textmate as my editor of choice when developing for Rails.

But what about when you are developing on Microsoft’s Windows platform. Well after playing around with a few editors I found Notepad++ which has some remarkable similarity’s to Textmate for Apple.

The best part about Notepad++ is it’s free and it’s also open source, however you can give donations as it started and developed by Don Ho and a small group of developers. I didn’t spend a lot of time using Notepad++ mainly because I spend most of my time on a Mac however I did enjoy using it as a Ruby on Rails editor for Windows. The only thing I didn’t see was a project window which you could import your Rails project framework into for easy access.

Notepad++ has full code highlighting, use defined language including Ruby, zoom in and out, and alot more.

A great editor and well worth further investigation.