[Catalyst] Documentation on DBIx Class

[Mesdaq, Ali]

I have to just rant a bit about that. The most difficult thing about
catalyst is trying to learn dbic. I love dbic and how clean it can make
working with the data layer but because of the documentation its hard to
wrap ur head around to just fully know how it works and what to expect.
I am not a full time web developer so I use catalyst for about a week or
two then work on other projects then go back to catalyst a few weeks
later and realize I need to re-learn all the dbic stuff again. The
simple stuff is easy but the many to many is poorly documented in my
opinion so it makes grasping that concept a little hard. I know for the
life of me I can't ever remember how to setup the relationships for many
to many tables and I need to look at old files then read the docs then
test it out then relook at everything again. 

Maybe the examples just need some more schema examples because the cd
example is too simple so its hard to see how it could be used in more
complex situtations. Thats just my rant from a perl guy who is a
catalyst beginner.

Thanks,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Povolotsky [mailto:tarkhil at over.ru] 
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:04 PM
To: The elegant MVC web framework
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Documentation on DBIx Class

Ian Tegebo wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, Tutorial is weak. CRUD section lacks Update at all, 
>> and it does not deal with any transaction, and it seems to use poor 
>> methods to create records.
>>     
> Could you provide an example of richer methods for record creation?
>
>   
Not yet. I'm learning Catalyst for about two weeks. I like Catalyst and
I don't like Catalyst's manuals. I'll try to write something as soon as
I'll get my app working.

Alex.
P.S. Most problems in nowadays tutorial is that they tell "do this and
this" instead "to achieve this, we must do this because of..."

Alex.

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