[Catalyst] Catalyst starter template

[John Napiorkowski]

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>Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst starter template
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>Isn't this something along the lines of https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer/ for RoR?
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Yes, I was thinking something like that.  There's be an app on CPAN, something pure Perl to make it trivial to install.

    cpanm CatalystX::App::ProjectBuilder

and then that would install a commandline app that took a configuration file of key values and either a url or name of an installed CPAN distribution with the templates

     cat myconfig | catalyzer http://github.com/path_to_something

where myconfig would just be a hash ref

    {
      name => ...
      ....
    }

and the url would be a repo with templates, probably using something lighter than template toolkit

You'd need to be able to specify some values via the commandline I guess


  cat myconfig | catalyzer --namespace MyApp::Web --template http://github.com/path_to_something


that would probably work well for just being a project directory and file builder.  It would do some of the stuff that puppet or chef does, like install mysql, and all that.  These are probably overlapping concerns, and I think having something like ^^ would be pretty easy to do and also I think really, REALLY helpful to people using Catalyst.

I know if such a think existed I'd put some templates on github pretty quick.

If someone wants to take this on, I'd be happy to assist.

John

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>On 17 Aug 2013, at 20:21, Ynon Perek <ynonperek at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Hi All, 
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>>After working with catalyst for some time, I found catalyst.pl too minimalistic for my needs. 
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>>So I created a small script called ctstarter.pl that adds some features to the base template you get for a new project. Currently it adds:
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>>1. A starter DB and migrations (using DBIx::Class::Migration)
>>2. Code and DB tables for managing users and roles (using CatalystX::SimpleLogin)
>>3. A Twitter Bootstrap web view with templates (using Catalyst::Helper::View::Bootstrap)
>>4. Two helper scripts: one to upgrade the DB and the other to reset admin password.
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>>You can find the source and usage instructions here:
>>https://github.com/ynonp/ctstarter.pl
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>>Any feedbacks is appreciated.
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>>Cheers,
>>  Ynon
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