[Catalyst] Win32 Catalyst Demo

Jeremy Silva JeremySilva at SilgorSolutions.com
Wed Apr 6 04:00:13 CEST 2005


Hey all,
Here are some instructions on getting the Hops example up and running 
for win32 people.  Hopefully it will help others out.

Jeremy


Installing Catalyst Hops SQLite Sample
   on a Clean Win2k Installation
    
(requires some knowledge of PPM,CPAN, and a little Perl)

Pre-requisite software:

Nmake: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe

sqlite2: http://www.sqlite.org/    (install in either windows/system or 
another directory that is defined in your environment path).


1.) Install Active State 5.8

2.) Install in PPM the following(accept/install all related dependencies):
   CGI-Simple
   YAML
   Cache-Cache
   DBD-SQLite2
   Class-DBI-Plugin-RetrieveAll
   Module-Pluggable-Fast
   Class-DBI-Loader
   Class-DBI-SQLite

3.) Install in CPAN the following:
   Bundle::Catalyst
   Catalyst::Model::CDBI::CRUD
   Template::Plugin::Class

4.) Per Sebastian's advice,
   Open C:\Perl\site\lib\Catalyst\Plugin\Session\FastMmap.pm
   and
       replace line: "use Cache::FastMmap;"
       with line: "use Cache::FileCache;" (or "use Cache::MemoryCache")

     In the "setup" sub-routine, also make sure you replace 
"Cache::FastMap" with
       "Cache::FileCache".
   Make sure that you wrap the "new" call, as a Hash Reference.
   Example:  Cache::FileCache->new( { ... } );
       instead of  Cache::FileCache->new();
       (Thanks Sebastian!)

5.) Get the latest "Hops" example and unpack it into a directory
   on your server. I have unpacked mine into "c:\code\hops".

6.) In the root "hops" example directory, edit "hops.yml".
   Change "root" to be the "templates" sub-directory of your "hops" 
directory (ex. c:\code\hops\templates).
   Change the DBI string to point to "hops.db" (ex. c:\code\hops\hops.db).
   Make sure to change the uri_base to be "templates".

7.) Edit the hops\lib\hops.PM file.    Change "Hops->config( 
YAML::LoadFile('...') );"
       to point to your YML file.
   ex.) Hops->config( YAML::LoadFile('c:\code\hops\hops.yml') );"

8.) Now you'll need to setup your database.
   - Open up a command prompt window, to the "Hops" root directory.
   - Type:  "sqlite hops.db"
   - Copy and paste the contents of the "hops_sqlite.sql" file, into the 
command prompt window.
   - Type: .exit
   - Close down your current Hops Server instance.

9.) Open up a command windows.
   Go to your Hops\script directory
   Type: perl server.pl

   Look out for any errors/warnings/non-compilations.

10.) Fire up a browser and point it at: http://servername:3000/
   You should be looking at your brand new Catalyst Example App.


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CREATE TABLE brewery (
    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
    name varchar(30),
    url varchar(50),
    notes text
);
INSERT INTO brewery VALUES(1, 'St Peter''s Brewery', 'http://www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk/', NULL);
CREATE TABLE beer (
    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
    brewery integer,
    style integer,
    name varchar(30),
    url varchar(120),

    score integer(2),
    price varchar(12),
    abv varchar(10),
    notes text
);
INSERT INTO beer VALUES(1, 1, NULL, 'Organic Best Bitter', NULL, NULL, NULL, '4.1', NULL);
CREATE TABLE handpump (
    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
    beer integer,
    pub integer
);
INSERT INTO handpump VALUES(1, 1, 1);
CREATE TABLE pub (
    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
    name varchar(60),
    url varchar(120),
    notes text
);
INSERT INTO pub VALUES(1, 'Turf Tavern', NULL, NULL);
CREATE TABLE style (
    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
    name varchar(60),
    notes text
);
INSERT INTO style VALUES(1, 'Test style','Note');



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