Welcome to the Catalyst Wiki

Get Excited

• Why Catalyst is an excellent web application framework
• Sites powered by Catalyst
• Screencasts
• Testimonials
• Applications powered by Catalyst

Get Started

• Installation
• Tutorial
• Necessary background knowledge
• Deploying Catalyst Applications
• FAQ - general questions about Catalyst
• Recommended Plugins - Recommended plugins to solve common tasks for production use
• CRUD - Rapid development
• Articles, slides and presentations

Official Resources

• Official Documentation
• The Official Catalyst Cookbook
• Book: The Definitive Guide to Catalyst - Community pages
• Catalyst Advent Calendar - A treasure trove of invaluable Catalyst How-Tos and tricks

Wiki resources

• HowTos
• Best practices
• Hosting: Reviews of Catalyst-friendly web hosting providers
• User contributed Wiki cookbook
• Catalyst Flow Chart and Catalyst redispatch diagrams
• Troubleshooting
• Support

Community

• Mailing lists and archives
• IRC channels
• Catalyst community on ohloh.net
• Catalyst on Debian - Track the status of Catalyst plugins and modules you use. Are there modules that you use which are missing from Debian or Ubuntu?
• Catalyst bounties - Rewards for requested contributions.
• Contributing - where the source code repositories live, how to contribute, etc.

Third-party modules

ORMs

• DBIx::Class - Excellent ORM (highly recommended!)
• Rose::DB::Object - An ORM that, like DBIx::Class, is separate from Catalyst but often used with it.

Form validation

• HTML::FormHandler FAQ - OO-Forms with Moose
• HTML::FormFu FAQ - HTML Form Creation, Rendering and Validation Framework
• Rose::HTML::Objects - HTML form manager

Other stuff

• Meta
• Old wiki (may contain obsolete information)