CGI isn't fun. I understand legacy code that runs on it, I don't think developing new web apps with it is the right thing to do, there are plenty of amazing frameworks which make perl web programming fast, powerful and fun again:

You have Catalyst (full on MVC framework, you can compare it to Rails), Dancer* (micro-web inspired by Ruby's Sinatra) and Mojolicious to name a few.

*Hint: Start here - http://perldancer.org/