- a development framework for web applications in Perl, is not for Win32 Perl programmers. At least not for this lazy, impatient one.

The support from ActiveState via ppm does not include Catalyst::Devel , and a CPAN style install is just a pain. Not just in Win32 - even on a RHEL4 VM it's a pain.

On the other hand, installing rails, given a working ruby installation and a broadband internet connection, is just a matter of keying in
gem install rails --include-dependencies

The problem I was trying to address was that so far I've written all my web applications in Perl/CGI/DBI, but I seem to spend too much time reinventing the same basic functionality. Ruby on Rails looks like a much cleaner way to go, but I would like to have been able to keep using my Perl skills.

From what I've seen so far, RoR versus Catalyst, my approach was about as forward-looking as Intel's years of dragging along 16-bit register conventions into 32-bit processors, restricting them  to 20-bit addressing. (-- because who would ever need more than 1 meg of memory?)

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