photo by Colin

## Gantry Features

- code generation with BigTop
- stand-alone server for rapid development
- runs on anything that runs Perl
- plugin architecture
- runs under mod_perl, Fast-CGI, CGI
- flexible template system
- user authentication and sessions
- built-in CRUD operations
- form generation and validation
- DBIx::Class support
- database and SQL utilities

A web application framework for Perl. Object-oriented design allows for a pragmatic, modular approach to URL dispatching.

- Introduction to a Framework
- Quick Start
- Tutorial
- FAQ
- POD Documentation

- 3 Minute Movie

  Three table app for grandparents' address book, using only defaults

- 5 Minute Movie

  Improved address book app with proper column names, extra columns, etc. Includes tour of generated code

## Download

Download from CPAN

Get the source code from Google code

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## News

- #### The Gantry Book

    by Phil Crow
    Version 1.1.1 is available from lulu.com (revised for Gantry 3.51 and Bigtop 0.29).

- #### Book Updates

    by Phil Crow
    The (updated) code samples are also available. There is also an erratum for version 1.0 of the book.

- #### YAPC::NA 2007

    by Phil Crow on June 26, 2007
    Here are the PDF slides for the Gantry talk.

- #### ONLamp, A Holiday Gantry Web Application

    by Phil Crow on June 14, 2007
    For a small dose of kickstarting Gantry apps with Bigtop, see this recent piece from O'Reilly's onlamp.com.

- #### Linux Mag, Building Applications With Gantry

    by Phil Crow and Tim Keefer on May 2007
    The May 2007 article Building Application With Gantry is now available online.

## Featured Plugins/Utilities

- #### Gantry::Utils::Captcha

    by Tim Keefer
    Read about a Gantry captcha utility.