Warren, Thank you for your reply and you very valuable advice. Completely lost but not willing to give up.
Thanks 2015-08-04 13:22 GMT-05:00 Warren Young <[email protected]>: > On Aug 4, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Richard Reina <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am trying to learn dancer. Have played around with > Dancer::Plugin::SimpleCRUD and although I find it useful I can't find an > example that applies specifically to what I want to learn. > > Dancer has a fairly small community, as compared to, say, Drupal or > Rails. Now you’re filtering your expected answer so that only the subset > of that small community that knows a non-core plugin can answer, and > filtering it further to those who know of an example that does some fairly > specific thing. > > There probably isn’t a single person on the planet with all of those > qualifications. At best, you’re going to find a SimpleCRUD fan willing to > write that code for you, out of generosity. > > Instead, start with stock Dancer, then pose *specific* questions when you > get stuck, providing the code you’ve run into trouble with. Then at least > everyone on the list could potentially answer your problem. > > I wouldn’t view SimpleCRUD as an easy on-ramp to learning Dancer, I’d view > it as a potential code-saving device once you know Dancer and decide that > your app does in fact fit its design language. > > That’s the problem with prescriptive frameworks: if your problem doesn’t > fit the framework, you end up doing a bunch of work to hack around that > framework’s design, wasting some of the savings it tried to give you. > > One of the beauties of core Dancer is that it is entirely > non-prescriptive. It’s a bag of tools, which you can choose to use as you > wish. > _______________________________________________ > dancer-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users >
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