the Castle MonoRail project attempts to emulate some of the benefits of Ruby-On-Rails but abandons the ASP.NET event model in the process.
Maverick.NET is a framework that optionally supports the ASP.NET event model but leaves the code-behind as the controller in the process.
 Ideally, a solution should be employed that leverages the ASP.NET event model while still allowing the code-behind to be as simple as possible.