SubSonic is fantastic! Dec 18, 2006 10:34
One of the things that I miss from Rails in ASP.NET applications is its ActiveRecord implementation. After reading Steve Trefethen's blog regarding DAL's, I decided to take broad look at the various options in the .NET space for making Data Access more palettable. Well, I wasn't disappointed.
I looked at a few frameworks, starting with some free ones. But once looking at SubSonic, there was no point in looking any further. It rocks. SubSonic is an open source, MPL licensed code generating framework that was inspired by Rob Conery's Rails experience.
The best way to get an introduction into what SubSonic can do for you is to watch the 20 minute screencast. FWIW, SubSonic was originally named "ActionPack"; I think SubSonic is a much better name.
Essentially SubSonic generates partial class code wrappers around your database tables utilizing the ActiveRecord pattern. It's simple, lightweight, focused, easy to use and provides strongly typed access to your underlying database tables. The other thing is that it's not simply a port of Rail's ActiveRecord, SubSonic does ActiveRecord in a .NET way.
I've just started to play with it, but I can't say enough great things about SubSonic. I'm very excited to use it in my forthcoming ASP.NET applications.
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