[Catalyst] CatalystX

Dermot paikkos at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 4 11:35:55 GMT 2009


2009/3/4 Peter Karman <peter at peknet.com>:
> 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).

In that case I will just have to ask the question: What are the
differences between the CatalystX and Catalyst?
Dp.



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