waswas-fng has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Folks,
I have recently stumbled upon the Catalyst web framework(offsite perl.org). What first got me interested in it was this article about it at perl.com. It looks to be a young MVC framework that is meant to solve a lot of the issues (I have at least) with Maypole, CGI::Application and OpenInteract. It seems to be the closest thing perl has to Ruby on Rails I have seen yet (AJAX, templates, quick prototyping, expandable API). I am wondering if this has caught other people's eye here at the monastery, and if so what do people think? I have written a few smaller apps with it and it looks to be way less painful to do apps that go beyond CRUD than the other web frameworks listed above. I guess I just want to get a feel for how much use it is getting right now (the documentation is pretty weak still as it is only a few months old). I don't want to dive into a new web framework only to see it dwindle and die a few months down the road. Also if you have tried it out, does it "feel" like a better model to you than the others listed above? That is really what won me over -- but I am not sure that I just have not given my mind enough time to wrap around what I consider limitations (mostly that they are geared towards CRUD, and anything more complex seems to start fighting the API) of the other frameworks I have tried.
Any feedback is appreciated, thanks...
-Waswas
Updated to fix dead catalyst link -waswas
I have recently stumbled upon the Catalyst web framework(offsite perl.org). What first got me interested in it was this article about it at perl.com. It looks to be a young MVC framework that is meant to solve a lot of the issues (I have at least) with Maypole, CGI::Application and OpenInteract. It seems to be the closest thing perl has to Ruby on Rails I have seen yet (AJAX, templates, quick prototyping, expandable API). I am wondering if this has caught other people's eye here at the monastery, and if so what do people think? I have written a few smaller apps with it and it looks to be way less painful to do apps that go beyond CRUD than the other web frameworks listed above. I guess I just want to get a feel for how much use it is getting right now (the documentation is pretty weak still as it is only a few months old). I don't want to dive into a new web framework only to see it dwindle and die a few months down the road. Also if you have tried it out, does it "feel" like a better model to you than the others listed above? That is really what won me over -- but I am not sure that I just have not given my mind enough time to wrap around what I consider limitations (mostly that they are geared towards CRUD, and anything more complex seems to start fighting the API) of the other frameworks I have tried.
Any feedback is appreciated, thanks...
-Waswas
Updated to fix dead catalyst link -waswas
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Re: Catalyst usage in the wild...
by perrin (Chancellor) on Jul 11, 2005 at 15:50 UTC | |
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jul 11, 2005 at 16:01 UTC | |
by jk2addict (Chaplain) on Jul 11, 2005 at 19:09 UTC | |
by sri (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2005 at 19:23 UTC | |
by jk2addict (Chaplain) on Jul 11, 2005 at 20:12 UTC | |
by perrin (Chancellor) on Jul 11, 2005 at 19:23 UTC | |
Re: Catalyst usage in the wild...
by phaylon (Curate) on Jul 11, 2005 at 15:30 UTC | |
Re: Catalyst usage in the wild...
by arhuman (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2005 at 15:45 UTC | |
Re: Catalyst usage in the wild...
by sri (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2005 at 15:35 UTC | |
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jul 11, 2005 at 15:56 UTC | |
Re: Catalyst usage in the wild...
by fmerges (Chaplain) on Jul 11, 2005 at 16:56 UTC | |
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jul 11, 2005 at 17:37 UTC | |
by sri (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2005 at 17:50 UTC | |
Re: Catalyst usage in the wild...
by Mutant (Priest) on Jul 11, 2005 at 15:32 UTC | |
Re: Catalyst usage in the wild...
by artist (Parson) on Jul 11, 2005 at 15:08 UTC | |
Re: Catalyst usage in the wild...
by johnnywang (Priest) on Jul 11, 2005 at 17:22 UTC | |
by sri (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2005 at 17:56 UTC | |
by arhuman (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2005 at 17:27 UTC | |
Re: Catalyst usage in the wild...
by IOrdy (Friar) on Jul 12, 2005 at 04:22 UTC | |
by sri (Vicar) on Jul 12, 2005 at 08:38 UTC | |
Re: Catalyst usage in the wild...
by weierophinney (Pilgrim) on Jul 12, 2005 at 11:51 UTC | |
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jul 12, 2005 at 14:40 UTC | |
by weierophinney (Pilgrim) on Jul 12, 2005 at 15:47 UTC | |
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jul 12, 2005 at 16:17 UTC |
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