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

As I''m forced to use microsoft technologies at work, I''ve been
looking
into ways to improve my productivity to a rails-like level. When I ran
into the castle project / monorails, my first thought was that i had
found what I was looking for.  Unfortunately, this has not been the
case.  I''ve ended waiting so much time trying to get the enviroment
setup, I would have been better of just starting from scratch.  I
still don''t have it working. So I''m back to looking at a more
''codesmith'' like solutions, although codesmith is extremely
complicated as well.

Kudos to the great design of rails.  What was the video a couple weeks
ago ''2 minutes to rails''  or something like that.  Some people
were
turned off because they felt that all that video showed off was
scaffolding, but there was alot more that enabled such a video.  For
example:

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.

Now if I can only convince central IS to install just one apache server...