[Catalyst] fix config right before database connect?

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:58:44PM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm running several instances of Catalyst app (for every developer and 
> production) on the same box; I'm thinking of automatically patch 
> database name loaded from config file to allow separate copies of 
> databases to coexist transparently.
> 
> What should I override to fix config AFTER file has been read, but 
> BEFORE database is connected?

We tend to put something like

  dbi:Foo:dbname=__user__

in connect_info and use ConfigLoader's substitution system to define a
programmatic replacement for that. See Plugin::ConfigLoader docs for details.

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