[Catalyst] auto re-load of application yaml config file?

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:53:10PM +0200, Marc Sebastian Pelzer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running a Catalyst application under mod_perl and wonder if there  
> is a Plugin available that detects changes on the main  
> application .yml config file and does a automatic re-load if needed?  
> It not - what would be the most elegant (and less I/O intensive) way  
> of doing this? Would it be enough to do a
> 
> __PACKAGE__->config( 'Plugin::ConfigLoader' => { file =>  
> 'my_config.yml' } );
> in my Root controller when I detect a change? 

Nope. apache2ctl restart, minimum.

You may find external FastCGI and a handler swap is a better approach.

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