[Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

[Ash Berlin]

On 17 Feb 2009, at 11:34, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote:

> Jay Kuri wrote:
>
>> To that end I'm soliciting your thoughts on things that you found
>> particularly hard to get a grip on when you started using catalyst.
>> (or that you are currently having trouble with)
>
> My biggest problem was how to handle the Norwegian characters (æøå) in
> an app with MySql, DBIx::Class, TT and mod_perl.  use Catalyst
> qw/Unicode/ only solves the TT and mod_perl side of the pipeline.  I
> finally ended up with (IMHO) a cludge: adding on_connect_do => [ "set
> character_set_client = 'utf8'", ] to the connect_info.  It only works
> as long as the internal coding in Perl happens to be utf8.

http://search.cpan.org/~capttofu/DBD-mysql-4.010/lib/DBD/mysql.pm#mysql_enable_utf8 
  for a less kludgy way

>
>
> I also had problems finding out how to create more comples FormFu
> forms, with respect to layout, types of objects, and constraints.  The
> main problem was that the documentation is (IMHO) scarce and scattered
> over a large number of files.  (This is arguably a FormFu problem, but
> FormFu is important for Catalyst applications. :-)
>

This is generally the problem with any such scaffold - they are fine  
until they aren't. You either make them simple to use and learn, or  
possible to extend how you want. Not both.

-ash