[Catalyst] Handling configuration outside the Catalyst application

[Eden Cardim]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Daniel Austin<daniel.austin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> How are you handling configuration for applications or code that run
> outside of Catalyst?
>
> For example, in my model tests, I have code like this:
>
>    use MyCompany::CatApp;
>    my $app = MyCompany::CatApp->new();
>    my $model = $app->model('DB::Model')->new({});
>    ok( $model->insert );
>
> etc.
>
> This way the model tests are talking to the right database as
> configured for that environment. But it seems slow to run and it's not
> the right coupling if I have, say, a cronjob that wants to use the
> same models.
>
> Are there any patterns anyone can recommend?

Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema is just an adaptor for loading a
DBIC::Schema inside a catalyst application. You can "use
MyApp::Schema::DB" anywhere outside your catalyst application, see
DBIx::Class::Schema for how to connect your schema to a database
backend without the help of C::M::DBIC::Schema.

Besides that, I've just finished writing code for $work that does a
few hacks to use Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader outside the context of
a catalyst application. it's a temporary solution, my opinion is that
there should be an external module for use by any application, not
just cat, and the plugin should just hook that module into Catalyst.

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