Creating a FubuMVC Behavior

As part of the day Job, our company decided to use FubuMVC for one of our monitoring and administration tools. This was all very exciting as I enjoy playing with new and shiny things. It's been a few days now and in an effort to put something back to the community I thought I'd provide you all with a few things I've learnt that might help someone out one day. I'll be demoing 3 things

• Creating your own FubuMVC Behavior (Behaviour if you’re English UK)
• Creating a FubuMVC html convention
• Creating a FubuMVC binding convention

Why would you want to create your own FubuMVC behaviour?

I like to think of the behaviours as a bit like the decorator pattern. They allow us to follow the Open/Closed principle in SOLID. I.e. I can add things such as

• Logging
• exception handling
• unit of work
• validation

to a code base without actually modifying the existing handler. It's one of the reasons I was so keen to try out FubuMVC. There are a few existing blog posts I've found which explain how to create a FubuMVC behaviour:

• Jon Cannings Fluent Validation Behaviour
• Justin Davies Unit of Work Behaviour