[Mpls-pm] Frameworks and session management?

[Dave Rolsky]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Ian Malpass wrote:

> I started building an application with Catalyst, and I got into a
> horrible mess when the "helper" scripts produced a mass of code I
> couldn't understand while I was trying to make use of the session
> management plugins. Well, actually, most of the problem was down in
> amongst the many and varied CPAN modules it worked with. Anyway, I tried
> CGI::Application, and it Just Worked (TM).

I recently(-ish) built a small app using Catalyst. I _didn't_ use the 
helper scripts to generate code, IIRC, as I'm not a big fan of code 
generation. Doing everything "by hand" worked pretty well, and the session 
plugins more or less worked, though I think there were some bugs back then 
that are now fixed.

I used DBIx::Class for the model as an experiment. I wasn't too thrilled 
with it, but if you're already using Class::DBI it should feel pretty 
natural. I used Mason for templating, but in more of a pipelined manner, 
where the Catalyst controller set up variables for the templates to use. I 
liked the controller bits quite a bit.

Overall, I'd probably use Catalyst again, though I might try to figure out 
how to get it and Alzabo to play nice with each other, rather than using 
DBIx::Class again.


-dave

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