From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-10-08T06:08:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

Andrew Libby wrote:
> Curiously, how does rails compare to Catalyst.  I'm a long time Perl
> programmer, and learned Catalyst before coming to Ruby and Rails.  Now
> I'm learning both Ruby and Rails.  I'm having a lot of fun, but find my
> lack of command of the language to be a real issue with gaining a
> command of rails.

Just on the off chance nobody else speaks up, get a copy of David
Black's book "Ruby for Rails". It's tailor made for that purpose.

> 
> I thought Catalyst was cool, but too much of a moving target.  I've
> tended to work on a project then loose interest for a few months.  When
> I return the Catalyst framework had undergone many changes.

I think you'll find variations of this in all community-based projects.
Smaller projects are usually worse in that respect; if it's just a small
clique of developers and users with little external feedback, they'll
pretty much do what they want when they want.

I think Rails is a good bit less "life at the edge of chaos" than a lot
of other open source projects. And Ruby is even more stable -- I
personally think it's more stable than Perl 6, for example.