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Dancer-based forum
by Brian E. Lozier 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

https://github.com/saberworks/App-Fan I started working on a forum system for a personal project but it's sort of stalled so I figured I'd put it out in case anyone would find it useful. There is essentially no management interface. You can see it in action at http://nocityofsilverdale.org/ (site is dead, feel free to play around). There are some rudimentary install docs and example configuration for nginx. The docs also list all the required perl modules (and ubuntu packages, if you use ubuntu). It runs on Postgres. Any feedback welcome, although I don't have any plans to work on this in the near future. There are some areas where I'm not using the dancer functions "correctly" because I just can't seem to get used to function_returns_ref->{'foo'} syntax. I've been typing dollar signs for so long I swear my fingers refuse to omit it. Brian

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Added options for Dancer::GetOpt
by Ovid 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Hi all, I've recently discovered a problem where I wrote a small daemon to handle a few tasks for my Dancer application. Unfortunately, I need more options beyond the option port, deamon, environment, help, confdir and restart arguments. I've temporary hacked together an solution that let's me do this: perl bin/rtb_deamon.pl --verbose --force --once \ --environment production But it might be nice if someone thought of a *clean* way of allowing extra arguments beyond those hard-coded into Dancer::GetOpt. I can't think of that clean way right now :) Cheers, Ovid -- Live and work overseas - http://www.overseas-exile.com/ Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl/

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merge config keys
by Puneet Kishor 27 May '12

27 May '12

I am trying to figure out how to do the following # config.yml foo: foo1: "blah" # development.yml foo: foo2: "blech" # production.yml foo: foo2: "yuck" Is this possible? If yes, how? -- Puneet Kishor

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Writing tests for restricted parts of Dancer application
by Anatoly Bashmakov 27 May '12

27 May '12

Hello. What are the proper way to write tests for parts of Dancer application which are acceptable after user logged in? I.e., for example: ---- hook 'before' => sub { if ( !session('username') and request->path !~ qr{^/login} ) { redirect '/login'; } }; get '/login' => sub { # appropriate template }; post '/login' => sub { # set up session('username') }; get '/auth_only' => sub { ... } ---- How can I write tests for '/auth_only'? -- Anatoly

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documentation for forward method
by GJ 26 May '12

26 May '12

Hi all, I am having trouble with the documentation for "forward" as found at: If you go to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dancer/lib/Dancer.pm#forward In the first place, I am finding that the statement "forward doesn't parse GET arguments" seems to be untrue. presuming an HTTP request like: 'http://localhost/foo?quux=blah' and some routes like: ---- get '/foo' => sub { return forward "/bar", { err => "from foo" }; }; get '/bar' => sub { my $f = param "quux"; return $f; }; ---- Dancer *will* return "blah", which on my interpretation of the documentation should not be possible. Secondly and more importantly from my perspective, the documentation does not explain explicitly how to get at my optional parameters once in /bar (the '{ err => "from foo" }' bit.) It's not an element of @_. Eventually, I figured out that I can use 'request->params->{err}', but this is not explicitly stated, and possibly not the intended way to do it. I'm on 1.3095. Thanks GJ

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Dancer + bootstrap + font-awesome template
by Assaf Gordon 25 May '12

25 May '12

Hello Dancers, I recently found myself starting couple of Dancer applications from scratch, and every time had to go through the same motions: Enable Template::Toolkit, update JQuery, add Twitter's Bootstrap, add Font-Awesome, update layout, etc. So I created a new template - perhaps other interested parties can use it to start dancing even faster. It starts a template just like "dancer -a", but with bootstrap + font-awesome already integrated (and two script to easily upgrade both). See it here: http://cowbell.cancan.cshl.edu/ https://github.com/agordon/dancer_bootstrap_fontawesome_template Comments are welcomed. -gordon

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forward() and prefix
by Alessandro Ranellucci 21 May '12

21 May '12

Hello dancers, it looks like forward() doesn't imply the application prefix. This might even be a regression, but I'm not sure about this. For example: === load_app 'Foo::Bar', prefix => '/foo'; package Foo::Bar; use Dancer ':syntax'; get '/' => sub { forward '/baz' }; get '/baz' => sub { "Hello world" }; === Calls to /foo/ from outside are correctly routed to the first handler, but then the forward fails because /baz is not internally prepended with the application prefix. A workaround is to add the prefix to the path supplied to forward() explicitely but this violates encapsulation. I think forward() should just prepend its first argument with the current application prefix before trying to route the request. Opinions? :) - Alessandro

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A new plugin to Internationalization.
by Natal Ngétal 18 May '12

18 May '12

Hi all, It's me again with a new plugin. I don't like so much Locale::Maketext, Gettext and Data::Localize. I discovered Locale::Wolowitz a very cool module use json to manage file. So I wrote a little wrapper to used with Dancer, again I hope the code look fine and be useful. plugins: Locale::Wolowitz: lang_session: "lang" locale_path_directory: "i18n" For the next version I must add tests, improve the code and add new features. Regards -- \0/ Hobbestigrou site web: erakis.im

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example dancer apps with source code
by GJ 18 May '12

18 May '12

Hi all, I am aware of http://perldancer.org/dancefloor, but I am interested if people know of any dancer apps where the source code is freely available? Thanks! GJ

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A new dancer plugin.
by Natal Ngétal 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi all, Yesterday I wrote a new dancer plugin to redirect all incoming requests to https inspired by flask-sslify. The project was renamed to don't confuse the users, thanks mst to advise. I'm hope the code look fine and be useful. Dancer::Plugin::RequireSSL also provides your application with an HSTS policy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security By default hsts_age is set for one year 31536000 seconds, and can also include subdomains in your HSTS policy by default is false. To configure plugin: RequireSSL: hsts_age: 31536000 hsts_include_subdomains: 0 In your config.yml. Regards -- \0/ Hobbestigrou site web: erakis.im

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