[Catalyst] Eclipse and Catalyst

[iain]

On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 13:13 +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> Has anyone used Eclipse or any other IDE.
> Can someone guide me in some steps how can i use Eclipse as an ide for
> Catalyst application?
> 

I use eclipse for all my development. It works great now that my
hardware has caught up with the bloat ;)

Once you have installed EPIC dont forget to add a perl nature to the
project. This then allows you to setup the include path
(Project/Properties) which will help you with on the fly syntax
checking.

I have managed to debug myapp_server.pl through eclipse with reasonable
success. Right click myapp_server.pl, (Run As->Perl local) You can pass
command line switches (-r -d) and environment variables via the
Run/Debug Configurations screens. I also tend to redirect STDOUT to a
log file via the common tab.

You should be able to follow any of the tutorials about eclipse/EPIC as
working with catalyst is no different to any other Perl project.

I have had most success running eclipse on linux, so YMMV on windows. 

Iain.

p.s. I came across a nice feature (bug) recently that helps with content
assist and object/classes http://bit.ly/d9UTR