I read this post on Article on /. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/04/1520227&tid=156&tid=1
which looked interesting since I am going to have a play with Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.html) and Ruby on Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.com/) seems to fell rather similar to cgiapp in a lot of senses. I am "reading up" on Design Patterns and would like to try out Ruby and this seems to be a good way to try. Has anyone on the list had a shot already and what are the main differences?
Rails is more of a framework than CGI::App. It think the perl equivalent is Catalyst (which is based on Maypole). And from what I can tell Catalyst is an awful lot like C::A but with more stuff.
For an intro on Catalyst... http://search.cpan.org/~sri/Catalyst-4.34/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Intro.pod
Most of the stuff added to Catalyst aren't so much a part of the application, but other stuff like a built in testing framework, testing server, etc. The code looks a lot like CGI::App though.
One problem I have already spotted is the likely difficulty of having mod_ruby or ruby installed at an ISP good old Perl is ubiquitous.
I'm sure Rails is nice, but from what I've seen (I know, I know, I should really try it out first hand) it doesn't do anything that can't already be done with perl (Maypole, Catalyst, C::A w/TT and Class::DBI).
-- Michael Peters Developer Plus Three, LP
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