Something between Rails and Asp.net MVC? A "best of both worlds" alternative

Question

I have studied both Rails and .Net, and find myself longing for features in one that exist in the other and vice versa. Rails has a wonderfully simple syntax while the C# IDE does have features that make development easier (unless you are a command-line purist). Is there a language/framework out there that takes the best from both and puts them into one neat package?

Answer 1

I don't quite see the benefit of mixing ASP.NET MVC and Ruby when you have Rails. If you are looking for a IDE that's similar to Visual Studio (with ReSharper) for RoR, I would go for RubyMine. It gives you almost the same feeling as if you are working in Visual Studio.

Answer 2

If you like the syntax simplicity echo system of rails, and if it is the IDE, there is always ruby/rails IDEs which does same as VS for C#

• NetBeans

• RadRails

• Rubymine

and lot more

Answer 3

Have you by any change had a look at JRuby w/ IntelliJ as the IDE?:

• http://jruby.org/
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/ruby_rails.html

Answer 4

Scala might work for you