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This book will make the Rails methodology more tangible to developers familiar with the Microsoft tools. It will help focus on learning Rails development from the point of view of the beginner-to-intermediate Microsoft developer, taking strides to point out the various similarities between Rails and Windows development patterns and will reference Microsoft tools the reader may already be familiar with. The book serves as a roadmap for ASP.Net, C# and VB.Net developers wanting to migrate their applications, skill set and development processes to the newer, agile programming platform that Rails offers. Developers comfortable with Microsoft technologies will learn how Rails provides simplified design, implementation, language features with an extensible enterprise architecture.