On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Jacinta Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day everyone, > > I've just joined and am looking forward to learning more about Catalyst. I > run > a business called Perl Training Australia, which - imaginatively - teaches > Perl, > in Australia. ;) > > I'm writing a conference paper comparing a number of Perl's popular MVCs. > I'm > somewhat familiar with Catalyst and have attempted (unsuccessfully) to use it > in > a couple of projects. Fortunately my paper is from a beginners point of view. > > If anyone has anything they'd like to share about Catalyst vs Jifty, Gantry, > CGI::App, Maypole, Mojolicious etc, I'm certainly open to insights. I don't > have enough time to learn all of these frameworks properly so I'm very > dependent > - at this stage - on information from the users and creators. > > My paper (and findings) will be available in December. I'm rating MVCs on: > * community participation > * ease of installation > * flexibility > * quality of documentation > * ease in creating a particular sample program (with CRUD) > > I know that Catalyst is about dispatch more than about CRUD, but I'd love > pointers to a tutorial about how to get a basic system with working CRUD up > and > working within minutes. When I first tried Catalyst (about a year ago) I > worked > through the tutorial but it did not cover all aspects of CRUD (I've forgotten > what was missing) and I later found that the modules it recommended were > deprecated. So I'd really, really love advice here.
There is a CRUD page at the Catalyst wiki: http://dev.catalystframework.org/wiki/crud My project is Catalyst::Example::InstantCRUD - that generates a CRUD scaffolding (ala Rails). It is now a bit dated - and rather a big pile of spaghetti - so I work on a new version (unfortunately I wait for new release of underlying libraries - so I don't know if it can be ready by December). See my ideas at: http://dev.catalystframework.org/wiki/crud/instantcrud. I need to add that my primary goal for InstanCRUD is to make it a learning resource. I believe that having a working example, tailored to the DB structure, that can be tweaked and experimented with is the quickest way to learn. -- Zbigniew Lukasiak http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/ http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
