Re: Poet: a web framework for Mason

On Apr 21, 2012, at 3:10 AM, Pedro Melo wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Swartz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm pleased to announce Poet, a modern Perl web framework designed especially for Mason developers:
> 
> It looks very good and I plan on trying it out next week. I'm curious
> how it deals with bigger projects though.
> 
> For example, I have an application that has 3 sites: a frontend
> catalog-style site with multiple skins, a private members-only site,
> and a backoffice site. A lot of components and libs are shared between
> the three sites, and things like logging and configuration are handled
> in a centralized manner, shared by the three sites. There are also
> other things, like async job workers, crons, incoming SMTP handlers
> that don't map well into a Poet layout.
> 

Well, as I said, Poet is used at the Hearst Corporation for a large project indeed -- serving 20+ external magazine sites (https://subscribe.hearstmags.com/) as well as internal content management and subscription management systems. So it is definitely an "enterprise scale" framework.

Since you mention crons - we keep the source of crontabs, logrotate confs, and apache confs inside a special conf/ subdirectory that is itself Mason based. Whenever the server is stopped/started, all these files are regenerated via Mason. This allows them to be generated differently depending on Poet configuration for the particular layer, host, etc. I hope to share this mechanism as well once it can be properly packaged up.

> Still, it looks good and its nice to see a lot of common sense Mason
> stuff codified into a separate module.
> 
> Congrats!

Thanks!

Jon


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