[Catalyst] Why Catalyst instead of Ruby on Rails?

[Jules Bean]

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.
>
>   

It is, isn't it?

> 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?
>   

http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki

(look down a couple of pages, 'Sites using Catalyst')