Rails - Sep 2005 - Looking at other attempts to get a 'rails like'

<snip>
>One thing I hate about .NET development is having to manually wireup
interface
>input to my data models.  Rails does this automatically!  So much time
is saved
>just by being able to go:
>user = params[:user]
>I don''t know if something like that is even possible in .NET, and
if it
is, I''m
>sure it takes more than five minutes of writing code and configuration
to get
>going.
I spent several months in 1998-9 wiring up a framework in Java
(pre-J2EE) to do just that... Which also involved rewriting a more
efficient string buffering solution since the framework did a lot of
string shuffling.

Why we LOVE Rails so much!