[Catalyst-dev] Tutorial updates...

[Ash Berlin]

On 31 Jan 2008, at 15:28, Gerda Shank wrote:

> The Catalyst Tutorial is in dire need of updating. I'd like to put  
> some work into it, but it's going to take some time. It would be a  
> shame to have the work duplicated and wasted, so I'm willing to  
> coordinate updates. Since the changes to Auth will require new  
> sample code, this seems like a good time to clean up some of the  
> rest of it.
>
> Does anybody object?  Any volunteers?

No. Yes, you ;) Well volunteered.
>
>
> Some of the areas that seem to come up a lot on #catalyst:
> Authentication/Authorization (obviously ;-)
> Not using "index" and "default"
> HTML::Widget is deprecated (switch to HTML::FormFu? Other form  
> variants?)
> TT confusion
>
> Other sore areas?  Comments?
>
> Gerda Shank

FormFu is certainly one approach. It might be an idea to also show a  
simple variant based on just using FormValidator::Simple and TT (which  
is what I use) since its very light weight.

-ash