Coat::MVC - Bringing Rails concepts to Perl

What? Another framework?

Yes, yell at me, I'm working on another framework, I'm the witch to burn alive on the market-place!

Why?

I've been working whith Ruby on Rails and wanted to have something similar with Perl. I wanted something light and with all the concepts I like in Rails.

How?

Coat::MVC is based on the following modules:

• Coat : this is the object meta-class used for building the framework
• Coat::Persistent : this is the ORM used for database abstraction
• CGI, CGI::Session, HTML::Strip : all those powerful Perl modules are used by Coat::MVC when needed
• Template::Toolkit : this is the module used for building the views

Then Coat::MVC provides two classes :

• Coat::MVC::Controller : the mother-class for your controllers, provides useful methods such as $self->request_post, $self->redirect, $self->args, ...
• Coat::MVC::Dispatcher : the main object used to process an HTTP request, it parses the REQUEST_URI and then call the appropriate controller/action. You can configure the dispatcher by adding routes, setting param filters...

... And a set of helpers you can use in your views (Template::Toolkit plugins) :

• Coat::MVC::Helper::Tag : all the stuff needed for building HTML in your views (ex: < Tag.input('text', 'name') %> ...)
• Coat::MVC::Helper::Ajax : helper for building Ajax controlls: shortcuts to scriptaculous calls.

When?

Coat::MVC is under heavy developement, it's not released yet.