title: Should ASP.NET MVC developers really learn Ruby on Rails?
body: <p>Today, I came a cross a blog <a href="http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/archive/2009/07/03/WhyMVCDevelopersShouldLearnRubyRails.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">post</a> for David Hayden explaining why he thinks ASP.NET MVC developers should learn Ruby on Rails. <br />
  Some of the reasons David mentioned: <br /></p>
  
  <ul>
    <li>ASP.NET MVC was inspired by Rails and in order for me to be a smarter ASP.NET MVC Developer I feel like I need to know Rails.</li>
    <li>IronRuby is well on its way to being released which has got me excited about learning a new language, Ruby.</li>
    <li>I really, really like Cucumber and RSpec and would love to use them for BDD via IronRuby on my ASP.NET MVC C# Projects.</li>
  <li>I think it would be cool to develop ASP.NET MVC Web Application using Ruby via IronRuby.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>What do you think guys? Is it really important for ASP.NET MVC developers to learn Ruby on Rails? If we are evaluating this option on a scale of 5 degrees ( Urgent-Important, Urgent-Not Important, Not Urgent-Important, Not Urgent-Not Important, A Total Waste of Time), what would your choice be guys, hopefully you will mention some benefits resulting from your experience working with both. Some articles, blog-posts on that subject are totally appreciated. <br />
  PS: There's a real use-case for this stuff, as my team leader is offering some courses on the house, and I was really considering Ruby on Rails.</p>