[Catalyst] Bing!

[Corey]

On Wednesday 10 August 2005 01:53 pm, Philip Edelbrock wrote:
> <troll-alert!>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!>
>

Here's a related link, fairly recent:
http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/archives/2005/06/ruby_on_rails_a.html


Rails has generated masses and masses ( and masses ) of hype. 

Ruby is definitely a nice language. Rails is definitely a nice framework.

... but the hype is just too much.


> BTW- It now comes to mind that it would be very helpful to have a  
> Catalyst vs

I intend to port the Rails shopping cart example from the new rails book, 
directly to catalyst - that will be a nice way of providing a side-by-side 
look into both frameworks.