Comparing Rails to Catalyst | blog.unlocalhost

I recall (Central Park in fall ...) man i digress. I recall attempting to learn Catalyst many years ago and being hit with a lot of arcane rules and well ... just plain bizarre usage of Perl in general. I didn't like Mason nor Krang very much either but i managed to learn them. Catalyst just seemed ... nasty. Well, now i really feel like i was correct. Catalyst sucks. And so does Class::DBI for that matter. Ruby on Rails and ActiveRecord blow each counterpart out of the water, respectively. These commands, with no need to edit any code, produced a full MVC driven CRUD interface for a fictitious "products" database (SQLite):

$ rails new depot
$ cd depot/
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m 'init'
$ rails generate scaffold Product title:string description:text image_url:string price:decimal
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "create model, views, controller, and migration for products table"
$ rake db:migrate
$ rails server

$ rails new depot

$ cd depot/

$ git init

$ git add .

$ git commit -m 'init'

$ rails generate scaffold Product title:string description:text image_url:string price:decimal

$ git add .

$ git commit -m "create model, views, controller, and migration for products table"

$ rake db:migrate

$ rails server

So far i am sold on Ruby/Ruby on Rails ...