Awhile back I suggested that perhaps we ought to try to bring a Rails-like framework to ASP.NET. Brendan Tompkins lets us know that someone else is doing exactly that with the MonoRail project.

MonoRail (former Castle on Rails) is a MVC web framework inspired on Action Pack. The Action Pack way of development is extremely productive, very intuitive and easily testable.

MonoRail differs from the standard WebForms way of development as it enforces separation of concerns; controllers just handle application flow, models represent the data, and the view is just concerned about presentation logic. Consequently, you write less code and end up with a more maintainable application.

From the website, looks like MonoRail is currently in Beta 5, whatever that means. I’ll have to check this out…