[Catalyst] Connect DBIx::Class model on startup?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 4, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Tomas Doran wrote:
> On 2 Mar 2012, at 20:44, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> On Feb 25, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>> On Feb 25, 2012, at 3:39 AM, Tomas Doran wrote:
>>>>>> Or maybe there's a reason why there's not an obvious hook and someone can point me to the pitfalls I'm not seeing.
>>>> 
>>>> It's not totally obvious as you can't do this at process startup (as you then fork!),
>>> 
>>> Yeah, I just realized that that was going to be an issue when I went to attempt this (late yesterday).
>>> 
>>>> so it has to be done in the FCGI process manager really (which does the forking)…
>>>> 
>>>> You can subclass FCGI::ProcManager and implement:
>>>> 
>>>> sub handling_init {
>>>> my $self = shift;
>>>> $self->next::method(@_);
>>>> MyApp->model('DB')->schema->dbh->ping; # Check we have a DB connection that's working straight after forking but before starting to handle requests.
>> 
>> Maybe I'm being thick, but where does that instance of MyApp come from? I don't see it being passed into FCGI::ProcManager
> 
> What instance of MyApp?

the one that I'm going to call ->model() on in order to pre-connect to my DB?

> There is no instance?


Then there's some magic that I'm missing? If I take your code literally, I'm going to get a 'cannot use a string as a hash ref' error.

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