[Catalyst] Bing!

[Philip Edelbrock]

On Aug 10, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 16:17 -0400, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
>
>> Catalyst provides that seperation in the controllers you write  
>> without
>> any extra hocus pocus needed elsewhere. The other factor is the  
>> the View
>> in Catalyst is more seperated from the Model than most platforms.
>>
>
> This is the major benefit of using an MVC-based system.  Any page- 
> based
> system will be much tighter coupled between the model and view.
>
> I'm pretty sure you could have done this with AxKit if you had used it
> differently, but I'm not an AxKit user so I can't offer specifics.


I'm also having some fun with Catalyst.  After getting over the  
initial hurdles of CPAN dependancies and using the helpers correctly,  
it's pretty fun.

<troll-alert!>We're looking at moving to a MVC type development  
system at work.  Being familiar with Perl for years, I'm looking at  
Catalyst.  Others at work are excited about Ruby-On-Rails.  We're  
trying to compare each objectively.  Has anyone else gone through  
this exercise?  I'm honestly a bit biased against moving to Ruby  
simply because a sexy MVC framework uses it (Rails), but I'm being  
persuaded by others at work by it's simplicity and marketing.</troll- 
alert!>

BTW- It now comes to mind that it would be very helpful to have a  
Catalyst vs... page on the wiki.  It simply isn't obvious what the  
+/-'s are between things like Catalyst, RoR, Cake, a Java-based  
solution (e.g. WebObjects), etc.


Phil