[Catalyst] get the path to the home

[Octavian Rasnita]

From: "Chisel Wright" <chisel at herlpacker.co.uk>

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:30:23PM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a I18N module in my Catalyst application and I want to get the path
> to the home directory of the application. Is it possible to get it without
> hard codding it in that module?
>
> The module is:
>
> package MyApp::I18N::ro;

> Assuming you can access to $c, I think this is what you want:

>   $c->path_to(’’)

> It's described in 'perldoc Catalyst' and mentioned in 'perldoc
> Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader'

> -- 
> Chisel Wright

Thank you but I know that. However, I have just the following module which 
is not a controller or a model or a view:

# Copy/paste from Catalyst::Plugin::I18N:

       #MyApp/I18N/de.pm
       package MyApp::I18N::de;
       use base 'MyApp::I18N';
       our %Lexicon = ( 'Hello Catalyst' => 'Hallo Katalysator' );
       1;

So I don't have access to $c. Does this mean that I will need to hard code 
the path to the home directory?

Here is what I want to do: I want to create a site in more languages, and it 
is simple to use a .po file for translating short strings, however I also 
need to display a few pages with pretty large descriptions, and I think I 
can avoid using a database for this.

Instead of using .po files I want to use perl modules like ro.pm, de.pm and 
so on, and in those files I want to define the translations as:

our %lexicon = (
'term' => 'translation',
'another term' => get_file('another_term',
);

sub get_file {
my $file = shift;
# read that file and return its content
}

I will keep those files in directories named with the language names like 
de, ro, en, fr, and they will be placed in MyApp/lib/MyApp/I18N directory 
(where the .pm or .po files should be also placed.

And I want to know if there is a way of getting that folder name without 
hard codding it.

Thanks.

Octavian