From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-07-18T07:55:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails vs. Catalyst

Greg Brown wrote:
> I just picked up a job for a company that is working on survey
> generation software for marketing and they're currently running a
> homegrown solution in perl via CGIFormBuilder on apache with a MySQL
> backend.  They're evaluating possible solutions for a redesign and
> being a ruby fan, I've suggested Rails.  After doing some research,
> they're interested.  However, they've already got a decent amount of
> perl code written and are looking at Catalyst as a viable alternative.
> I honestly don't know anything about Catalyst and was hoping that some
> of you in community can offer me a comparison between Rails and
> Catalyst so that I can help this company make the right decision.

I don't know that there's any direct comparison out there yet, but
there was an article on Catalyst at
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/06/02/catalyst.html.  RoR does get some
mention in that article.  In fact, Catalyst was inspired by RoR (and
Maypole).

HTH.

Dan