[Catalyst] DBIC vs CDBI

[Will Hawes]

catalyst at isidore.net wrote:
 > there's no obvious ->retrieve function, and it just seems less 
friendly overall.

DBIx::Class::ResultSet::find() is what you are looking for:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-Class/lib/DBIx/Class/ResultSet.pm#find(%40colvalues)%2C_find(%5C%25cols%2C_%5C%25attrs%3F)

If you find the docs lacking, please be specific about where you feel 
they could be improved (or better still, send a patch).

The docs are a lot better than they were and most questions can be 
answered by reading them thoroughly, the one above being a case in point.