Catalyst is an elegant web application framework, extremely flexible
yet extremely simple. It's similar to Ruby on Rails, Spring (Java), and
L<Maypole|Maypole>, upon which it was originally based. Its most
-important design philosphy is to provide easy access to all the tools
+important design philosophy is to provide easy access to all the tools
you need to develop web applications, with few restrictions on how you
need to use these tools. However, this does mean that it is always
possible to do things in a different way. Other web frameworks are
# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Catalyst::Runtime'
# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Catalyst::Devel'
+ # perl -MCPAN -e 'install Catalyst::View::TT'
=head3 Setup
=item * B<MyApp/Model/>
-=item * B<MyApp/M/>
-
=item * B<MyApp/View/>
-=item * B<MyApp/V/>
-
=item * B<MyApp/Controller/>
-=item * B<MyApp/C/>
-
=back
-In older versions of Catalyst, the recommended practice (and the one
-automatically created by helper scripts) was to name the directories
-C<M/>, C<V/>, and C<C/>. Though these still work, they are deprecated
-and we now recommend the use of the full names.
-
=head4 Views
To show how to define views, we'll use an already-existing base class for the
From a style perspective it's usually considered bad form to make your
model "too smart" about things - it should worry about business logic
and leave the integration details to the controllers. If, however, you
-find that it does not make sense at all to use an auxillary controller
+find that it does not make sense at all to use an auxiliary controller
around the model, and the model's need to access C<$c> cannot be
sidestepped, there exists a power tool called L</ACCEPT_CONTEXT>.
=item * B<Overriding the namespace>
-Note that I<< __PACKAGE__->config->(namespace => ... ) >> can be used to override the
+Note that C<< __PACKAGE__->config->(namespace => ... ) >> can be used to override the
current namespace when matching. So:
package MyApp::Controller::Example;
directly to the method name, ignoring the controller namespace.
C<:Global> always matches from the application root: it is simply
-shorthandfor C<:Path('/methodname')>. C<:Local> is shorthand for
+shorthand for C<:Path('/methodname')>. C<:Local> is shorthand for
C<:Path('methodname')>, which takes the controller namespace as described
above.
comprehensive test scripts, L<Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst> is an
invaluable tool.
-For more testing ideas, see L<Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::Testing>.
+For more testing ideas, see L<Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::08_Testing>.
Have fun!