Although I'm not finished the application that I'm building with
Ruby on Rails, I've decided that next up on my plate for new'ish technology is
MonoRail. Afterall, all the cool kids who aren't quite cool enough to be doing Rails seem to be going crazy for MonoRail. As a former web guy I've done a lot of WebForms development, so its time that I see what all the hype is surrounding MonoRail. I was originally going to build the business/data layer with LINQ to SQL, but I think I'm instead going to go all Castle and use
ActiveRecord along with
Ayende's NHibernate Query Generator.
Unfortunately, I'm not smart enough to be able to figure out how the heck to get the MonoRail project templates to show up in VS.NET. I'm guessing they're not necessary, but for a MonoRail newbie they seem like they'd be useful. I'm planning on building things from the trunk, as such I tried following these instructions on
Using the Trunk. Can anyone offer any advice on how I might get the project templates working? Should I give up and just go with the very old MSI that's available?
UPDATE: It helps if you actually read the documentation. Running the RC2 installer and then following the necessary steps in
Using the Trunk worked perfectly.