[Catalyst] Where is the "Catalyst for Dummies" page?

[Brian Kirkbride]

J. Shirley wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/19/07, *Dave Rolsky* <autarch at urth.org <mailto:autarch at urth.org>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, J. Shirley wrote:
> 
>      > Here's a good path to follow:
>      > 1) How would I accomplish [business goal] as a library that other
>     people can
>      > use?
>      > 2) How can I test [business goal]
>      > 3) Write that API as a separate perl module (MyApp::BizLogic)
>      > 4) Now, write a thin Catalyst adapter class
>     (MyApp::Model::BizLogic) that
>      > provides the Catalyst hooks to make it easier to talk to in the
>     controller.
> 
>     As an aside, I don't really grok #4. My big Catalyst project has been
>     converting an existing Mason/Alzabo site to use Catalyst, but with the
>     same model classes using Alzabo.
> 
>     I've had to do very little to hook Catalyst to my model, beyond writing
>     some thing adapter classes to make the Authentication plugin happy. What
>     exactly do people put in their Catalyst Model classes?
> 
> 
>     -dave
> 
> 
> Well, I mostly put in an adapter class to make auth happy ;) -- also, 
> you can put in some other caching logic that is only relevant while 
> running inside of Cat.
> 
> -J

Exactly!  Or passing $c->log to your models, or even passing the app's 
base URL if your model's need to generate URLs (for email, etc).

- b