Too Busy For Words - the PaulWay Blog

Work on my Rocket module continues slowly. Slowly, because I've discovered yet another project - a database of music, instructions and notes on Irish Set Dances. It's an extrapolation of the spreadsheet I had that showed which sets were on which CDs and whether I had instructions for them; now it's fully relational so you can have multiple CDs and multiple instruction sources for each set, as well as recording the other tracks on each CD so that if you need waltzes (for example) you know which CDs they're on. Now that I've got the database structure set up, I've started using Rocket again to do the basic CGI work, so I've got back into working on the module again.

However, a friend mentioned Jifty, something he calls "Perl On Rails". A quick look at the Jifty website (which uses a wiki called Wifty - guess what it's based on) shows that, yes, indeed, it does have a lot of similarities to Ruby On Rails - Model/View/Controller structure, centralised config, templates with overrides - without the hassle of learning a new language that's irritatingly similar to one I already know and without a name that's an irritating simile for a long length of steel used to support things. I'm installing it on my home server. My does it need a lot of Perl packages, though...