[Catalyst] Mason + DBI + Catalyst?

[Dave Rolsky]

On Mon, 25 May 2009, J. Shirley wrote:

> Rather than Catalyst being geared towards TT, I would say Mason is geared
> towards being a framework :)

Well, sort of. Mason is quite usable as a "pure" templating system. I use 
Mason with Catalyst for all my new projects, and the framework parts of 
Mason really don't matter to me.

> The view should just be thin templates, in that regard I would recommend
> using Catalyst::View::MicroMason (
> http://search.cpan.org/~jrockway/Catalyst-View-MicroMason-0.05/lib/Catalyst/View/MicroMason.pm)
> which wraps Text::MicroMason (Mason template syntax without the
> "framework").

Except you also lose really useful non-framework features like 
autohandlers, which are like TT's WRAPPER (but better, IMO).


-dave

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