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Greg
Greg

Reputation: 34798

Is ASP.net MVC a direct copy of Ruby on Rails concepts?

I'm been developing Ruby on Rails previously. I'm now looking at an ASP.net web app and I'm looking at WebForms and MVC. As I look at MVC it feels as if I'm looking at the result of something a Ruby on Rails developer implemented after being forced to work in MS land. So I'm wondering:

Was MVC more or less taken directly from Ruby on Rails and it's concepts? (either intentionally or unintentionally)

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1331

Answers (4)

jlbenc
jlbenc

Reputation: 434

I agree that the MVC pattern's been around a while and it's a good architecture for web apps, but if you look at ASP.NET MVC, you soon come to the conclusion that they could have named it Rails.NET

Upvotes: 9

Slavik Derevianko
Slavik Derevianko

Reputation: 636

I have worked with Struts, Spring, RoR and now asp.net MVC. I feel that there is enough room for different concepts, even if the main concept and brandname for a framework is MVC.

As it goes to asp.net MVC, it seems that RoR was taken as the reference implementation of web MVC.

Upvotes: 3

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 8599

MVC has obviously existed long before Rails or ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET MVC is however, influenced by Ruby on Rails, but that really isn't a bad thing. Specification of routing is handled in a similar way, helpers are similar. While all MVC frameworks are similar, ASP.NET MVC feels as close to Rails as you could achieve in a language such as C#.

Upvotes: 15

jaywon
jaywon

Reputation: 8234

No, MVC is a design pattern that works very well for web applications. Ruby on Rails i think was an early adopter that showed how well suited it was for a web architecture, and was probably an influence on MS implementation, but did not come up with the design.

Upvotes: 2

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