Borrowing from a lot of Rails’ concepts, Rob Conery has come up with something that’s pretty sweet if you’re developing on ASP.NET – The .NET ActionPack. Complete with obligatory screencast. There’s definitely some configuration that needs to take place in order to get started, but once you’re done, it seems like you could really fly (relatively, in a .NET sorta way :).

I’m definitely not suggesting that all us Softies forget about Rails and head back to ASP.NET in droves, but this looks quite promising for those folks that are absolutely tied to ASP.NET for one reason or another. And it’s awesome to see Rails’ influence on members of the .NET development community who realize that it’s time to start writing less code and be more productive.