Perl On Rails

Cody Pendant has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Say you were wanted to get going quickly on a project, a typical SQL-back-end, Perl-HTML-front-end project, which framework/module/setup would you use?

I'm at the planning stage of a website for a client.

They need:

a database back-end with a database of businesses in categories in suburbs, e.g. "Café X" in category "Cafés" in Suburb X
the display of various listings and sortings and categorisations of those businesses
various flaggings and notations of these database items so Café X can be "Café of the week" and/or "voted best Café" or whatever.
the ability for the client to take over, add items to the database, upload images, etc etc

It's that last one I'm asking about, really. I can happily put together all the other stuff, but is there any kind of pre-packaged Perl solution for those kind of tasks, specifically, easily creating straightforward user front-ends for that kind of back end?

Otherwise I'll need a fully-fledged CMS, or I'll need to use some kind of blogging setup and customise/add to it.

I don't have experience of CGI::Application or Catalyst or anything like that, but I've done similar stuff using the DBI, CGI and HTML::Template modules.

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Re: Perl On Rails by wazoox (Prior) on Jun 11, 2006 at 13:53 UTC
There's quite a huge choice by now (some will say that too much choice will do more harm than one only official and blessed system, anyway). Maypole : the first one. Catalyst : forked from Maypole IIRC. Jifty : forked from Catalyst I think. Gantry is quite new and seems promising; see Introducing the Bigtop Web App Language I've seen another one or two (perhaps something called Mojo?) I just can't remind right now. however stuff such as RFC : AJAX + DBI = DBIx::LiveGrid and perljax may help you as well.	[reply]
Re^2: Perl On Rails by ghenry (Vicar) on Jun 12, 2006 at 13:17 UTC
Re Jifty. Send an email to Best Practical about that one ;-) Walking the road to enlightenment... I found a penguin and a camel on the way..... Fancy a yourname@perl.me.uk? Just ask!!!	[reply]
Re: Perl On Rails by UnderMine (Friar) on Jun 11, 2006 at 15:01 UTC
If you want a prebuilt CMS it might be worth looking at Metadot. It is mod_perl based and under GPL. Object based and expandable. Documentation could do with improving but it has potential to be very useful for rapid deployment. Just my thoughts UnderMine	[reply]
Perl on Poles by mugwumpjism (Hermit) on Jun 12, 2006 at 04:05 UTC
Check out Catalyst, with the help of Catalyst::Helper::Model::DBIC::Schema and Catalyst::Helper::View::TT you can be up and running quicker than your mum.	[reply]
Re: Perl On Rails by sh1tn (Priest) on Jun 11, 2006 at 12:53 UTC
As far as I know Maypole is the only MVC born in Perl's world. Otherwise Template Toolkit and Class::DBI or whatever DB abstraction layers you prefer can be used but these combinations are not really MVC frameworks.	[reply]
Re^2: Perl On Rails by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 11, 2006 at 17:03 UTC
... why aren't they?	[reply]
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Re^2: Perl On Rails by fro (Novice) on Jun 12, 2006 at 08:09 UTC
http://www.catalystframework.org/	[reply]