[Catalyst] Why Catalyst instead of Ruby on Rails?

[Christopher H. Laco]

Ovid wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been doing a bit of research regarding Web application frameworks.
>  Catalyst was a breeze to install and I had the test server running and
> serving pages immediately.  That was great.  I've read quite a bit that
> convinces me that Catalyst is a nice tool.
> 
> I'm wondering about two things, though.  First, why would someone want
> Catalyst over Ruby (or vice versa)?
> 
> Second, are there "success stories" for Catalyst that one can point to
> to demonstrate it's scalability and flexibility?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ovid
> 

The most obvious reason:  "I know Perl. I don't know /(Ruby|Python)/."

Just this last week, I've started watching all of the RoR movies and
coding demos. My impression thus far is that Catalyst is much much
cleaner in terms of keeping stuff out of the views.

-=Chris
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