Re: [Omaha.pm] framework shell shock?

[Dan Linder <dan@linder.org>]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:34, Jay Hannah�<jhannah@mutationgrid.com>�wrote:
> I think I shell-shocked Ben when he wandered into the source code for one of my Catalyst apps. �"Where is the actual Perl program that runs?"
>
> Frameworks can be pretty intimidating at a glance... � :/ � Don't know if he's seen anything other than CGI.pm before.
>
> Jay Hannah

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Jay,

You seem to be pretty excited about Catalyst, so based on your�enthusiasm�I started poking around with the tutorials a while back.

Unfortunately, I'm still old-school CGI with external processes, and an OO newb, so I couldn't really wrap my head around the tutorials that the Catalyst team put together (http://search.cpan.org/~zarquon/Catalyst-Manual-5.8005/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial.pod).

The tutorial jumps right in and seems to tie everything to a database. �While that's great, I want a very basic "Hello World" example to get started...

Last Friday I stumbled across this series of blog posting:

��http://sedition.com/a/2733 -�10 Catalyst models in 10 days

He bypasses the DB features early on and shows how to just build a simple web page. � Yes, there are OO features in there, but he gives the full perl code examples so I can see what's suppose to be going on.

For anyone wanting to look into Catalyst but were completely confused by the default tutorials, this may be helpful.

Dan

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