January 2013 - dancer-users - lists.preshweb.co.uk

Dancer::SessionFactory::Memcached released
by David Golden 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

It's amazing how little code is needed with Moo and the role. Mostly, it just delegates everything. https://github.com/dagolden/dancer-sessionfactory-memcached/blob/master/lib… David -- David Golden <xdg(a)xdg.me> Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdg

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Scope of modules and 'use' directives
by gvim 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

I'm developing a Dancer app with the setup outlined below (ie. modules 'use'-ing other modules) but I'm confused about when to 'use' various modules and Perl version statements. My config.yml has Template Toolkit selected so my first question is do I need to specify 'use Template' in each module that uses the 'template()' call or is that all taken care of once the config has been specified. If it is taken care of, does that apply to all the 'nested' modules? Next, do I need to specify 'use Dancer qw(:syntax)' in every module which makes use of Dancer functions? Again with 'use 5.014' - in every module or is once enough in the App::Routes module, for example? I suppose what I'm unclear about is what an imported module can access that is in the importing module/script. gvim **************************************** package App::Routes; use 5.014; use Dancer qw(:syntax); use App::Login; use App::Logout; use App::Register; ........ post '/login' => sub { App::Login::run }; post '/logout' => sub { App::Logout::run }; post '/register' => sub { App::Register::run }; ......... 1; **************** App/Register.pm ************************ package App::Register; use 5.014; use Dancer qw(:syntax); use App::Validate; sub run { my $valids = validate(params()); # Validate and process any errors then return %form ............ template 'register_user', {form => $valids}; }; 1; ***************** App/Validate.pm *************************** package App::Validate; use 5.014; use Data::FormValidator; use Dancer qw(:syntax); BEGIN { use Exporter; our @ISA = 'Exporter'; our @EXPORT = 'validate'; } sub validate { my $params = shift; my $results = Data::FormValidator->check($params, \%profile); ......... template 'errors', {invalid => $results->invalid, missing => $results->missing}; return $results->valid; } my %profile = ( ............ ); 1;

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Using Google Calendar in my app
by Joel Roth 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Hi Dancers, I'm planning for a website with event calendars and online registration and payment for these events. Event providers, will register their events, and my site's home page will aggregate all of these events into a single calendar, as well as providing access to individual calendars. >From the YouTube videos I saw, Google Calendar appears to supply much or all of the functionality I need. I also see that Net::Google::Calendar provides an API to access all this goodness from my from my Dancer application. I'd like viewers to be able to click on an event (such as a public workshop) displayed in an embedded Google Calendar on the site, and go to a page that I will provide with more information and a button to register. Is that what Net::Google::Calendar::WebContent provides? Assuming yes, here is my second question: I'm thinking of giving users two options for creating their calendar content: 1) Create and manage their calendar through their own Google account, so my website will just pull in that content. 2) For those who *don't* have a Google account, provide forms for them to manage their events. In that case the calendars would be created under my own Google account (i.e. MyWebsite(a)gmail.com) In case (2), I can easily add a link to a calendar entry to a registration page. For case (1) since I will not have write access to these user's personal calendars, one approach would be to make a copy of each user's calendar in MyWebsite(a)gmail.com. Having done that, I can use Net::Google::Calendar::Entry's add_link method to provide access to the online registration form. That means I will have to periodically sync all of the calendar copies with the original source. Could there be a better way to handle this? Note, that I've also looked at most of the other families of calendar modules on CPAN, however Google Calendar seems to be nearest to the functionality I want to provide, and also fairly straightforward to use via N::G::C. I'd be interested to know if I'm missing anything important before I get too deep. Thanks, Joel -- Joel Roth

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Advice needed in designing setup for dancer app,
by Prasad Gunasekaran 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

HI, I currently have a VM with /data directory to do whatsoever I want to run the dancer application, then this vm will be cloned to another 2 and all three will serve the site with 2 more serving as dev and staging, my plan is to do the following, all directories prefixed with /data /www => actual dancer application code, /perl5/lib/perl5 => perl modules and core dancer code. /apps => install tools like monit, nginx etc. /source => raw source code for the above. then this /data will be either mounted or whole vm would be cloned to other boxes. I would like know whether this setup I came up with is sensible one and if someone has any suggestions to improve, please shed some light to me. Thanks, Mopi. -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.

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Two new SessionFactories on CPAN: Cookie and MongoDB
by David Golden 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

I've implemented two non-core SessionFactories for use with Dancer 2 and released them to CPAN: * Dancer::SessionFactory::Cookie * Dancer::SessionFactory::MongoDB If I get a chance, I'll attempt to whip up one or two more simple ones to give people a sense of what's involved, and then motivated people with expertise on other backends can jump in and help out. David -- David Golden <xdg(a)xdg.me> Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdg

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Deployment Question
by James Baer 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hi All, I currently have a dancer app in development deployed via Apache using Plack::Handler::Apache2 I know that the docs state "Only a single Dancer application can be deployed using the Plack::Handler::Apache2 method. Multiple Dancer applications *will not work properly" * However, I have additional virtualhosts on the same server and some of them run under mod_perl (some just mp::perlrun). When using the Plack::Handler, these other mod_perl applications are broken. Is this known to affect other mod perl applications as well? Is this something that will be addressed in Dancer2? Thanks for any input. I'm loving dancer so far...

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Dancer::Plugin::Database socket:?
by Sam Batschelet 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hello I have a development environment which creates individual instances of mysql for each development "camp". To connect to these instances I declare typical connection information but I don't see how to set the option to set non standard socket location 'mysql_socket' for the plugin. Is there a trick for this, future support? Thanks

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Rating/reviewing Dancer and its plugins...
by David Precious 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Hi all, Just a prod to rate/review Dancer and the plugins you use on MetaCPAN / CPAN Ratings to help others find them! It's easy - search for Dancer on MetaCPAN, and click the "++" button for Dancer and any of the plugins you use: https://metacpan.org/search?q=Dancer Also, if you have time to write a brief review of what you like about Dancer and the plugins you use, there's CPAN Ratings, e.g.: http://cpanratings.perl.org/search?q=Dancer&s=Search (a few direct links:) http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer-Plugin-Database http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer-Plugin-DBIC http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer-Plugin-Auth-Extensible http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer-Plugin-SimpleCRUD ... etc ... (Comments from reviews on CPAN Ratings might also be used in the testimonials section of the website - or you can mail specific stuff to go there if you'd prefer - http://dancer.pm/testimonials ) Thanks all! -- David Precious ("bigpresh") <davidp(a)preshweb.co.uk> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpan www.preshweb.co.uk/github

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Dancer::Test response_status_is cleans session data in forward
by Dinis Rebolo 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi I was building a test for a app made with dancer and I'm getting a strange behaver... We need to authenticate to access this routes so I store the user in the session. and I have something like this: $route = 'dev'; route_exists [ GET => '/widgets/'.$route ], "a route handler is defined for /widgets/$route"; ## this works fine response_status_is [ GET => '/widgets/'.$route ], 302, 'response status is 302 for /widgets/'.$route; ### this route is a forward to '/widgets'; and after this I loose the session. I was able to trace to where the session is lost and is in Dancer/Test.pm line 378. before this I have user in the session my $get_action = Dancer::Handler::render_request($request); after this I don't have user in the session. Could some one help me here? I'm using the latest Dancer version Thanks -- Dinis Rebolo dinisrebolo(a)gmail.com

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Logging Issues
by James Baer 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Hi All, I'm having some logging issues, that I can't seem to figure out. I have my environment set to development with the following logger settings: logger: "file" log: "core" When I log a "debug" message I'm seeing this error in my main apache error log: (even though I have a virtual host specific error log setup for this app) log directory /var/www/vhost/<appname>/bin/.. isn't writable/executable and can't chmod it at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Dancer/Logger.pm line 16 According to the docs: "If you're using the file logging engine, a directory appdir/logs will be created and will host one logfile per environment." Why is it saying "bin" isn't writable, when it should be looking for a "logs" directory? Any help would be appreciated Thanks

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