The Single Responsibility Principle This post is about the first letter in Uncle Bob's SOLID acronym, Single Responsibility Principle , and a continuation of The Los Techies Pablo's Topic of the Month - March: SOLID Principles . Sean has already posted on this, but I'd like to "contribute"...

Update: Zip file links have been updated due to the first one being corrupt! Well it was bound to happen at some point. My first screencast . It's a quick walkthrough on how you can get a baseline MonoRail solution up and running. Yeah, I know. Everyone's talking about MS MVC these days, and...

Last night, my fellow LosTechies geek Jason , wanted me to check out something he was trying to do in a MonoRail controller test. For some background and the original source code he was working with, see his Castle forum post . So here was the partial test he was working with: [Test] public void Should_have_error_summary_message_when_required_name_is_not_filled...

(Because I often get tired of writing my verbose comments in a 300x300 text box...) Colin seems to find himself in a pretty good spot . The wonderful world of Greenfield development. But of course with this comes...decisions. MVC or Web Forms? ActiveRecord or PI (persistent ignorant)? .NET or Ruby? ...

If you want a great into to MonoRail, check out Colin's screencasts . I will possibly be re-writing my validation post.

This post was decided upon after watching Hammet 's screencast on using attribute-based validation in MonoRail. * NOTE : I do not agree with embedding validation into the domain model. I would prefer a service handle this, but I'm utilizing the validation that is in the framework. I've been...

Ayende (pronounced A-yend (no eh at the end) - verified in this post after hearing Colin pronounce it) posted on an idea he has - MonoRail HotSwap and Colin Ramsay did a screencast of MonoRail HotSwap . I know that the AppDomain having to reset because a code change occurred can be annoying sometimes...

UNIT TESTING After the past 2 1/2 posts I've migrated my unit tests to use the BaseControllerTest abstract class that originated from the Eleutian guys, but is now a part of the Castle MonoRail trunk download . Here is my ExampleControllerTests class: 1: using Castle.MonoRail.TestSupport; 2: using...

This is another one of those "blog it so I can remember it" posts. My last post about a similar tip was relating to asserting redirects in a MonoRail controller. This one deals with asserting which view is being rendered in your controller when only RenderView is called. Controller Code 1:...

One of the first things I should have posted: How It Works This image is good for all you visual learners out there: (from the Castle Project documentation) This will help us when we go to the next post on layouts (view engines). Instead of starting on the page, it starts with the controller as a true...