[Catalyst] Why Catalyst instead of Ruby on Rails?

[Matt S Trout]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:45:04AM -0800, Ovid wrote:
> 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)?

http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/VersusRails
 
> Second, are there "success stories" for Catalyst that one can point to
> to demonstrate it's scalability and flexibility?

(from http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/)

Sites Using Catalyst

# MighTyV - Award winning telly-software by leading perl hackers [http://www.mightyv.com/]
# Nyheter.abcsok.no - Search in 3 years worth of norwegian news - Catalyst & Xapian [http://nyheter.abcsok.no]
# Scrpbk.com gives its users something between a blog, a bookmark collection, a personal website and a scrapbook. What it is for you is your call. [http://scrpbk.com]
# SqueezeNetwork - Community site for slim devices' customers [http://www.squeezenetwork.com/]
# The Covers Project - Database of vinyl covers [http://www.coversproject.com/]
# Oxford English Dictionary Sci-Fi Quotations Database [http://www.jessesword.com/sf]
# No More Bare Walls [http://no-more-bare-walls.co.uk/]
# Natural History Book Service [http://www.nhbs.co.uk/catalogue/]
# CPANTS [http://cpants.perl.org/]
# Chicks-on-vinyl [http://www.chicksonvinyl.com/] (potentially NSFW)
# Florian Ragwitz' homepage [http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~rafl/]
# PerlChina  [http://member.perlchina.org/]
# Beyahad  - Israeli bi-polar self-help group organizers [http://www.beyahad.info/]

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