[Catalyst] connection() or die

[Matt S Trout]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:03:28PM -0800, apv wrote:
> I swear I tried to solve this and searched about 20 pages and query 
> combinations but I can't find it.
> 
> How do you verify your connection is good in a Model base class?
> 
> I know it's the problem when I'm getting "Can't call method "search" on 
> an undefined value at ..."
> but I would like to test for it in the module to do something with some 
> sane/directed feedback.

Hmm ... the problem is that you don't want to leave the connection around
in case you fork afterwards. Best bet is probably to try a plain DBI->connect
yourself to ensure the db connection's good and then discard that $dbh.

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