Catalyst creates routes, just like Rails. It just does so through method decoration as opposed to a configuration mapping. There are excellent reasons to use both mechanisms and there is (was?) a project to bring Rails-style routes to both Catalyst and CGI::Application. (I think C::A now has routes, but I'm not sure about Catalyst.)

The biggest benefit of routes, imho, is that you can see everything all at once. I've spent time trying to figure out why my Catalyst routing wasn't working. Catalyst also has a few hacks in how the routing is done in order to support all the different situations that have been thrown at it. Rails does, too - just different ones.

To my mind, Catalyst truly is the best of both worlds - I have the power of CPAN married to the power of Rails.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^4: Does Catalyst Borrow from Rails? by dragonchild
in thread Does Catalyst Borrow from Rails? by mojotoad

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