[Catalyst] Access custom TT filters outside of catalyst context

[J. Shirley]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's the only place to have $c in the entire code, and you only copy over
> the bits that you want:
>
> $self = bless({ %$self,
>                  model_accessor => $c->model('MyModel')->whatever,
>              }, ref($self));
>  return $self;
>
> then in view::TT:
>
> sub whatever {
> my $self = @_;
> $self->model_accessor->do_stuff;
> ...
> }
>

But what if $c never exists, because you are writing a command line
application that never invokes Catalyst?

-J