Re: [Catalyst] Using Selenium to test Catalyst app

2009-02-16 Thread Daniel Austin
2009/1/29 Tomas Doran > Given that _multiple_ people are hacking this to work correctly, wouldn't > it make sense to send patches back to the author(s) so that it 'just works' > for everyone else? > So I volunteered to co-maintain Alien::SeleniumRC and the author has kindly given access. I've up

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Kieren Diment
On 17/02/2009, at 8:47 AM, Jay Kuri wrote: Right... As I've said before, I'm not interested in the super-newbie area. I don't want to teach perl. Teaching better perl practices, sure. Teaching what a sigil is and what they mean in perl... not so much. I had a huge amount of fun writing the

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Kieren Diment
On 17/02/2009, at 8:01 AM, Octavian Râsnita wrote: Good idea. I think that many beginners find hard to learn Catalyst if they are coming from another framework, or even worse, from CGI.pm, because right after they begin, they need to learn DBIx::Class, Template- Toolkit, YAML or Config::

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Jay Kuri
Right... As I've said before, I'm not interested in the super-newbie area. I don't want to teach perl. Teaching better perl practices, sure. Teaching what a sigil is and what they mean in perl... not so much. Overall, I'm interested in helping those who are new to the Catalyst platform but are

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Devin Austin
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Octavian Râsnita wrote: > Good idea. > > I think that many beginners find hard to learn Catalyst if they are coming > from another framework, or even worse, from CGI.pm, because right after they > begin, they need to learn DBIx::Class, Template-Toolkit, YAML or > C

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Octavian Râsnita
Good idea. I think that many beginners find hard to learn Catalyst if they are coming from another framework, or even worse, from CGI.pm, because right after they begin, they need to learn DBIx::Class, Template-Toolkit, YAML or Config::General, and they might not understand very fast if a cert

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Dermot
2009/2/16 Jay Kuri : > Hello, > > So all this 'too many choices' talk has got me thinking. I'd like to > put together some more web-available information for those > transitioning to catalyst from other methods. > > To that end I'm soliciting your thoughts on things that you found > particularly h

[Catalyst] New version of InstantCRUD

2009-02-16 Thread Zbigniew Lukasiak
Looks like we are again discussing CRUD in Catalyst - so I decided to finally update InstantCRUD and release it to CPAN. It is still experimental. It is a 'scaffolding' - like the Rails one - it generates a CRUD application for a given dsn. Some more random thoughs: http://dev.catalystframework.

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Devin Austin
Well, people are going to want to know how Catalyst compares to *ahem* others as far as AJAX goes, certainly REST, and app servers like nginx, lighttpd, etc. Also, best practices. Walking beginning to end on an app is great, but a lot of the newbies end up having to throw away a lot of their newl

[Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Jay Kuri
Hello, So all this 'too many choices' talk has got me thinking. I'd like to put together some more web-available information for those transitioning to catalyst from other methods. To that end I'm soliciting your thoughts on things that you found particularly hard to get a grip on when you star

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development

2009-02-16 Thread Alexander Hartmaier
I thought you refer to youporn.com ;-) - Alex Am Sonntag, den 15.02.2009, 13:39 +0100 schrieb Dan Dascalescu: > > Aye, that it is: > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/iplayer_day_performance_tricks.html > > Thanks for the link. I added it as a support URL to > http://www.applie

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development

2009-02-16 Thread Jay Kuri
Hey all, Cosimo: Cool. I wanted to add that Denny de la Haye has put up perlisalive.com. He is looking for some success stories to cover. It'd be great if anyone who has some success stories / perl liveliness to share could submit them there. Jay On Feb 16, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Cosimo

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Kieren Diment wrote: and there you go, a pdf of all 363 pages of the catalyst docs. Well, that's a start. I think it would need some polishing to compete with the available Django docs. For easier comparison I've tossed a copy of the Django pdf manual up on my site:

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development

2009-02-16 Thread Dan Dascalescu
> We're not BBC of course, but I took some time > to add the My Opera community site (developed by our team > in Opera Software) to appliedstacks.com. Nice, thank you. > I never heard of this site before, but since it's mentioned > here I assume it's somewhat "trusted". I have no idea who's behi

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development

2009-02-16 Thread Zbigniew Lukasiak
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Dan Dascalescu wrote: > > I think I can agree with that. What I'm saying is that there's simply > too much useless choice. Random example: > > Data::Dumper > vs. > Data::Dump. > > I've just discovered Data::Dump but it appears to beat the crap out of > Data::Dumpe

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development

2009-02-16 Thread Cosimo Streppone
In data 15 februar 2009 alle ore 15:05:33, Octavian Râsnita ha scritto: From: "David Wright" I can't say much because of confidentiality, but from the Catalyst survey late last year, I can say that there are some pretty high profile places using Catalyst around about. It's public knowledg

Re: [Catalyst] The stash and go()

2009-02-16 Thread Alexander Tamm
Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: Yes. Your problem is that auto() needs a return value to say whether to go forward with an action or not, so just add "return 1;" at the end of auto(), and all will be fine. ...because otherwise auto() implicitly returns the result of the failed conditional test

Re: [Catalyst] The stash and go()

2009-02-16 Thread Lars Balker Rasmussen
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Alexander Tamm wrote: > I'm experiencing a little bit of weirdness with the stash when using go(). > I'd like to make sure I'm not making false assumptions. Is the called action > supposed to see the same context and/or stash as the the calling action? Yes. Your

Re: [Catalyst] TT Latex Experiences with Catalyst

2009-02-16 Thread Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann
works very well, currently only as tex2pdf and as download if( $c->forward($c->view('Data::PDF')) ) { $c->response->content_type('application/pdf'); $c->response->header('Content-Disposition', "attachment; filename=".$c->stash->{customer_invoice_filename});

[Catalyst] The stash and go()

2009-02-16 Thread Alexander Tamm
Hi! I'm experiencing a little bit of weirdness with the stash when using go(). I'd like to make sure I'm not making false assumptions. Is the called action supposed to see the same context and/or stash as the the calling action? I'm noticing that my Root's auto-sub is getting called after ca