Written for web developers with basic Perl skills, this book guides new users through the open-source Perl-based Model-View-Controller Catalyst framework using real-world examples and systematic code snippets, covering application design, development, testing, and deployment. If you are excited by Ruby on Rails but prefer the familiarity of Perl, get this book and get started. The way that many web applications are implemented makes development painful and repetitive. Catalyst solves this problem, organizing your web application to design and implement it in a natural, maintainable, and testable way. Its philosophies are Do It Yourself and Don't Repeat Yourself. Everything is written only once; database access and configuration are centralized; you just write actions for each URL in your application and Catalyst handles the details. Catalyst is designed to be reliable; the code is well tested; there are hundreds of production applications, thousands of users, and a thriving community.

About the Author

Jonathan Rockway

Jonathan Rockway, a member of the Catalyst Core Team, has been programming Perl since his middle-school years. He became professionally involved with Perl when he was a desktop support minion at the University of Chicago and inherited a mod_perl application. He now works as a software developer at Infinity Interactive. In his spare time, he maintains a collection of modules on the CPAN and tries to speak at as many Perl conferences as possible.

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