January 2015 - dancer-users - lists.preshweb.co.uk

dancer2 gen
by Brendon Oliver 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Hi all, I've recently been looking at migrating a small Dancer1 app of mine to Dancer2. I noticed a couple of small issues with tinkering with 'dancer2 gen ...': - it creates both bin/app.pl and bin/app.psgi which are identical, but the dancer2 man page only refers to bin/app.psgi. I'd suggest either removing generation of bin/app.pl or covering it in the doco. Related issue: if bin/ app.pl is kept, then for it to be started just with a simple ./bin/app.pl the final statement in the script would need to call either ->start() or ->dance() on the module instead of ->to_app(). - also from the dancer2 man page: The application is ready to serve: $ cd MyWeb-App $ plackup bin/app.psgi >> Listening on 127.0.0.1:3000 == Entering the development dance floor ... ... this is a little mis-leading: plackup uses port 5000 by default. Also the startup output produced by plackup is a little different: $ plackup bin/app.psgi HTTP::Server::PSGI: Accepting connections at http://0:5000/ Again, if both the generated .pl / .psgi scripts are both kept, then I think they ought to at least both start on the same port for consistency (I'm presuming a developer would normally use one or the other, not both at the same time). - 'gen' also has a -d option which isn't mentioned in the man page. Also, not cluing into the docs properly, I inadvertently gave an absolute path to -d (dancer2 gen -d /some/long/path -a Foo) - and ended up with my Foo app being created in `pwd`/some/long/path. I don't know if it's intentional or not, but I think maybe -d should blow up if given a string that looks like an absolute path (or maybe conflate the -p / -d options into a single option which "does the right thing"). thoughts? cheers, - Brendon.

1 0

Porting Dancer::Logger::Syslog to Dancer2
by Andrew Beverley 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Dear all, I've made an attempt at porting Dancer::Logger::Syslog to Dancer2. If anyone has any comments/feedback/corrections then that would be much appreciated. https://github.com/abeverley/libdancer2-logger-syslog-perl I promised Yanick I'd port it a long time ago, so hopefully nobody has done so since I last spoke to him! Thanks, Andy

1 0

Dancer training advice
by Andrew Solomon 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

Fellow Dancers, In November I went live with online Perl training at Geekuni. Things are progressing quite well with individual students, and I'm now looking for advice on which companies would be interested in my Dancer2 training services. I've currently got one client putting their graduate recruits through my Perl Essentials course, but their web framework of choice is Catalyst (which I don't feel comfortable teaching online). Does anyone know of a company who'd be interested in Dancer training online? As this is in the early stages I'm also keen to know people's thoughts on the levels of service a client would expect. Thanks in advance! Andrew p.s If your advice leads to a client, I'll give you one of these:) https://www.flickr.com/photos/129472045@N05/15397101654/lightbox/ -- Andrew Solomon Mentor@Geekuni http://geekuni.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/asolomon

1 0

New Dancer2 release on its way to CPAN: 0.158000
by Sawyer X 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

A new Dancer2 release is heading to CPAN as we speak. Christmas threw us off a bit on timing but we're back on track this week with our weekly Dancer2 release. Important changes include a significant speed boost when you're uploading big files (by not buffering small chunks and adding them constantly) and importing utf8 properly - a subject investigated to its fullest by Maxim Vuets. I would like to thank all the developers who helped this release in order of appearance in the changelog: Dávid Kovács, Rick Myers, Russell Jenkins, Maxim Vuets, and James Raspass. Thank you all! The full list of changes is as following: [ ENHANCEMENT ] * GH #778: Avoid hard-coded static page location. (Dávid Kovács) * Speed up big uploads significantly. (Rick Myers) * GH #821: Use Import::Into to import pragmas. (Russell Jenkins) * GH #782: Fix utf8 pragma import. (Maxim Vuets) * GH #786: Perlbrew fix. (Dávid Kovács) * GH #622: Refactoring. (James Raspass) [ DOCUMENTATION ] * GH #713: Change order of statements in Cookbook to not imply that D2::P::Ajax::ajax() calls have priority. (Sawyer X)

1 0