Ruby on Rails vs. Mono.NET

Friday, March 11 2011 -

I’m looking to start a project that will be hosted at Rackspace on the cloud. It will also likely have at least a partial component that uses E2C at Amazon. The cost of a Windows platform is just silly at these places so I’m going with Linux. The question is Mono.NET vs. Ruby and Rails.

Now I tried a simple MVC2 project on Mono.net both on Windows using VS2010 and their plugin. The site compiled, but refused to run. I then tried using Mono IDE and it failed to even compile a simple MVC app.

I don’t have the patience to fight the IDE before I’ve even got the site running so I’ve switched to VMWare Ubuntu and Ruby on Rails. I’m thinking of using JetBrains IDE RubyMine. Anyone got any better ideas?