[Catalyst] myapp_test.pl - running code from the command line

[Tai Hsiao]

Hi Jon,

   I haven't tried this myself, but check out the Catalyst tutorial.  It
looks like it shows exactly what you need:


http://search.cpan.org/~zarquon/Catalyst-Manual-5.8005/lib/Catalyst/Manual/=
Tutorial/08_Testing.pod

-Tai

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Jonathon Soong <jon at investmentscience.com.au
> wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> I am new to Catalyst and have a question :)
>
> I'd like the ability to run some of the code of my website from the
> command line ( a cron job ).
>
> Usually this would be achieved by a person logging into the website and
> clicking on a particular button which hits a controller.
>
> I saw that there is a myapp_test.pl that can call a particular address,
> so i tried this:
>
> This works fine:
> $>  perl script/myapp_test.pl /login
>
> I can see the HTML get printed out on my screen.
>
> But when I try to get to a deeper URL it does not work:
>  perl script/isrms_test.pl /my/other/url
>
> I think this is because there is authentication on the site?
>
> Is this the way I should be going about trying to do this? Is there a
> better way to do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jon
>
>
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