[Dbix-class] CD Collection Sample DB

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Tue Jun 27 18:41:01 CEST 2006


Steven Mackenzie wrote:
> Matt S Trout wrote:
> 
>> Steven Mackenzie wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The DBIxC manual pages use a CD collection DB schema for their example
>>> snippets. Can I download a real copy of that from somewhere?
>>>
>>> Maybe as a SQLite v3 db file, or as a sql script for MS SQL?
>>>    
>>>
>> If you look in the DBIC dist, there's a t/lib/sqlite.sql that deploys our 
>> testing schema and after running make test you'll find a DBIxClass.db sqlite 
>> db file in t/var
>>
>> That any good?
>>  
>>
> Looks like it would have been ideal -- BTW, I ran it as
> sqlite3 -init sqlite.sql DBIxClass.db
> is that what you intended?

make test will create and populate the database itself, so that won't achieve 
much except for wiping out the sample data.

> I was having trouble getting a trivial DBIx::Class app to run, but I've
> cracked it now (If you're defining your table classes in the same file
> as your schema class, you don't want to call load_classes, call
> register_class instead).

yeah. Defining multiple classes in one file is Bad Perl Style and often 
requires some gymnastics to make work - relationship inference will be iffy as 
well, you'll probably have to specify join conditions for everything.

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