Both Ruby on Rails and Microsoft's ASP.NET are dynamic web programming frameworks. In my opinion these two languages will be the future of the net for at least the next 5-10 years. At that point we may be doing something entirely different. But at this point these are some of the most popular and powerful frameworks. As I have started to work in both languages I thought it would be good to compare and contrast the two sides of web programming, Microsoft and Open Source.
At this point I have read Microsoft Press's "ASP 2.0 step by step" and "Agile Web Development with Rails" by The Pragmatic Programmers. Both have been very interesting and beneficial to my understanding of these languages. Both of these books give you a basic understanding of the frameworks.
We'll start with the Microsoft Press book, they do a good job of covering basics. The problem is that they don't build on top of each other so you have a collection of small programs that don't relate to one another. We'll this is good for starting at different points of the book its not for someone who wants to learn from going through the entire book rather then just reference a section.
The Agile book was very well written the book starts you off with a basic tutorial and then starts of with the “Depot” application. This is the one thing that I liked about this book, you started to build something and kept adding to it. It also was well written and easy to follow. I did afterwards ad some extra features to the application but would not have needed to do so.
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