[Catalyst] CatalystX

[Peter Karman]

Dermot wrote on 3/3/09 4:36 PM:
> 2009/3/3 Oliver Gorwits <oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk>:
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>> Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
>>> ListFramework is focused on the task of providing such an admin
>>> interface - so I guess out of the many other Catalyst CRUD
>>> frameworks it must really excel at that.
>>>
>>> But if you were looking
>>> rather for a scaffolding (i.e. something that builds a *template*
>>> CRUD application - which you can later modify to adjust to your
>>> needs) - then you could have a look at mine
>>> Catalyst::Example::InstantCRUD
>>>
>>> In general the authoritative page on Catalyst CRUDs is:
>>> http://dev.catalystframework.org/wiki/crud
>> Agreed - it depends what you want from the application, whether you
>> need it to be customized, etc. Zbigniew has described the situation
>> very well, here.
>>
>> For CX::ListFramework::Builder, it sounds like Dermot could set it
>> to run in an /admin path-part, then set an ACL on that in the Apache
>> config so only his site admins could access that area.
> 
> That's exactly what I have done. Limit it via ACL. It allows me -
> alone -  to quickly view of the schema purely (for reference
> purposes). I was bowled over by how quickly you could get a
> web2.0(ish) interface into you schema. The version I have 0.41 is
> displaying the relatioships in a unexpected way but it was the Extjs
> interface that scored for me.
> 
> I was going to ask the question some time ago how CatalystX differ
> from Catalyst but I guess I should just do the tutorial when I get
> some spare time.
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/CatalystX-CRUD/lib/CatalystX/CRUD/Tutorial.pod

just to be clear: that tutorial is specific to CatalystX::CRUD, which is an
entirely separate project from LFB.

http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/crud outlines some of the differences (though
it seems to be down atm).

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