[Catalyst] Bing!

[Andy Grundman]

Philip Edelbrock wrote:
> Another related question: I see that Catalyst is rated as 'production/ 
> stable' (i.e. not 'beta').  I could see that it's easy to discount  that 
> because it is so new and still under development.  On the flip- side, 
> RoR seems to be marked as 'beta' (at least in Freshmeat.net),  but can 
> be argued that it is already used to deploy complex public  sites.  Do 
> you have any insight as to how 'beta' Catalyst is vs. RoR?

I would consider Catalyst very stable and production-ready.  I have 
already deployed 3 smallish production sites using Cat and am currently 
porting 2 other rather large sites.

> Speaking of which, are there any large reference sites built on  
> Catalyst to look at?  RoR has a list of links on their site,  including 
> the flagship site 'Basecamp' (which incidentially we are a  user of at 
> work, which further makes RoR an easy sell for many here).

My production sites:
http://www.earthyclean.com

Work-related production sites: These are using Oracle on sloooow Solaris 
servers, but run amazingly fast through a combination of Sweet caching 
and a little page caching.
http://courses.marconi.com
http://events.marconi.com

Porting...
http://www.hybridized.org (75% done)
http://www.mixdepot.net (15% done, but already in a homegrown MVC so 
should go quick once I get the time!)

-Andy