Last July, I blogged about an IronRuby ASP.NET MVC prototype Levi and I put together with John Lam and Jimmy Schementi of the DLR team. It was really rough around the edges (and still is!) One of the benefits of doing that prototype was that it inspired all the work around action and controller descriptors...

Say you’re building a web application and you want, against your better judgment perhaps, to allow end users to easily customize the look and feel – a comment scenario within a blog engine or any hosted application. With ASP.NET, view code tends to be some complex declarative markup stuck in a file on...

Warning : What I’m about to show you is quite possibly an abuse of the C# language. Then again, maybe it’s not. ;) You’ve been warned. Ruby has a neat feature that allows you to hook into method calls for which the method is not defined. In such cases, Ruby will call a method on your class named method_missing...