[Catalyst] Shoot out -- Catalyst / RoR / Other MVC apps --

[Jamie Neil]

RA Jones wrote:
> Absolutely - I'm in exactly the same position, and am following almost 
> exactly the same process, except that I abandoned RoR early on and 
> decided to stick with Perl for the re-write. Catalyst was an entirely 
> new concept to me, having progressed from a long-list-of-if-elsif-else 
> type scripting -> CGI::Application -> Catalyst/DBIC and found, and am 
> still finding, it hard going. The Tutorial was a massive help, without 
> which I'm pretty sure I could not have even got off the ground, and so 
> is the Catalyst & DBIC mailing lists, but would also find an article on 
> next-step development and best practices extremely useful. Count this as 
> a vote in favour.

What he said :)

I've spent the last week or so trying to distill out the essence of how 
other people have done it (Handel and C::M::DBIC::Schema mostly), but 
the amount of unfamiliar modules and coding techniques is making my 
brain hurt.

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