[Catalyst] Why Catalyst instead of Ruby on Rails?

[Sebastian Riedel]

Am 11.11.2005 um 20:45 schrieb Ovid:

> 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)?

I don't want to say too much, since i'm clearly not impartial, but  
the philosophical differences have to be highlighted a bit.

Rails tries to be a end-to-end solution, shipping with a template and  
orm system, very tightly integrated.
Catalyst is all about TIMTOWTDI, you decide which components to use  
(even multiple ones in a single app).

Maybe there will be tighter integrated frameworks based on Catalyst  
in the future. :)

Another point is extendability, Rails is actually just starting with  
plugins, Catalyst was built from the ground up with extendability in  
mind, you can change every single bit!


--
sebastian