From: xmlblog@...
Date: 2005-06-30T02:25:45+09:00
Subject: Re: ASP.NET vs Ruby on Rails

There's a few ways to do SEO friendly urls for IIS/ASP.NET. One way is
ISAPI_REWRITE which is like a mod_rewrite for IIS. A pure ASP.NET way
is to implement a custom HttpModule. The module is pretty easy to
write, but if you want something nice and configurable like the Rails
routes you'll have to devote more energy to it. I bet you'll start
seeing a lot more of the ideas in Rails ported to ASP.NET by the
community. In cases where you don't have the luxury of just switching
architectures and blindly throwing away code (you'd be nuts to do this)
it makes sense to adapt stuff as elegant as the Rails implementations
and port it to .NET. A lot of the really good Java stuff has already
been ported (at least partially): JUnit, Hibernate, Spring, Maverick,
Ant etc.