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

[RA Jones]

Anthony Gardner wrote:
> A few pages on best-practices would be great. For someone learning new 
> concepts there's lots of new terminology/methods, lots of people have 
> their slant on the meaning of things and sometimes the penny never 
> drops ............ and then you give up and go back to old/bad 
> practices because they're warm and comforting (haha).
>
> I'm currently doing a lot of reading about Patterns, learning new 
> approaches like Catalyst, RoR, ORM and all with a view to redesigning 
> an existing application at work. It's a lot to take on, I wnat to get 
> it it 'right' but it's confusing and I find I spend a lot of time 
> reading books/ reading mailing lists/ reading anything I can get my 
> hands on ...... it's a steep curve.
>
> Just a thought ;)
>
> -Ants
>
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.
--
Richard Jones
Leeds, UK

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