Warming up to MVC2, Castle, and Spark with Red Yawk

Red what? Red Yawk (silent W), as in Red27 Consulting’s Yet Another Web frameworK. I’m not sure I really like the name, but it’ll work for now.

I spent a good part of today trying to decide on what web framework to use for some upcoming projects. I spiked with FubuMVC, which I would have liked to use, but the lack of documentation and my lack of knowledge about it was too much to overcome right now. I also spiked MonoRail, which I’ve used in the past and generally like. The main thing here was the lack of portable areas. So, I settled on Asp.Net MVC 2. I like the idea of portable areas, I’ve been working with MVC 1, so I’m familiar with a lot of helpers and architecture. I like that n2cms works well with it. And companies will most likely feel better having there site built on in simply because Microsoft is behind it. Regardless, I had to pick something.

The goal is to have a solid base project to start with, without rebuilding everything every time a new project is started. Some requirements from me; Areas, Container (prefer windsor), Spark, and ultimately the ability to add on binary extension, portable areas. Also, it’s using Psake for build support, NUnit for testing, MongoDB for the document database.

I recently saw a post about Warmup, which seems like it would work well, and so far it has. I think I’ll have other warmups, that include NHibernate support and n2cms support later

Checkout the start of the project at http://github.com/candland/redyawk-warmups. Once, warmed up you can run the psake script to build and test, you’ll need to install psake or import the psake module in the tool directory.

Is there a directory of Warmup templates?

Is there a directory of Portable Areas?