Why aren't ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas Thriving Like Rails Plugins?
I love the idea of the Portable Areas in MvcContrib.  After reading up on it, and building a couple for practice, I was surprised not to find a plethora of open source projects leveraging this neat way to distribute features across MVC applications.  

Being a guy who has messed around with Rails frequently, I love that I can find a plugin for just about anything. (Comments, Authentication, Search, CMS, Logging, etc.)  

However, when searching for Portable Areas, the only ones I see are the samples and an OpenId implementation.  

Where is the love for Portable Areas?

 - Is it too new?
 - Is there something wrong with the architecture?
 - Is there just not as thriving an open source community as there is in Ruby world?

Why aren't ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas Thriving Like Rails Plugins?
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I love the idea of the Portable Areas in MvcContrib.  After reading up on it, and building a couple for practice, I was surprised not to find a plethora of open source projects leveraging this neat way to distribute features across MVC applications.  

Being a guy who has messed around with Rails frequently, I love that I can find a plugin for just about anything. (Comments, Authentication, Search, CMS, Logging, etc.)  

However, when searching for Portable Areas, the only ones I see are the samples and an OpenId implementation.  

Where is the love for Portable Areas?

 - Is it too new?
 - Is there something wrong with the architecture?
 - Is there just not as thriving an open source community as there is in Ruby world?
