Just FYI, version 0.06 of Dancer::Plugin::Database has just been released, incorporating two new features, courtesy of Igor Bujna - thanks Igor! The changes are: * the ability to provide parameters to be passed to the DBI->connect call, e.g. RaiseError or AutoCommit * the ability to provide a list of queries which should be performed immediately upon connection to the database. An example configuration block, showing the new dbi_params and on_connect_do settings in use, is: plugins: Database: driver: 'mysql' database: 'test' host: 'localhost' username: 'myusername' password: 'mypassword' connectivity-check-threshold: 10 dbi_params: RaiseError: 1 AutoCommit: 1 on_connect_do: ["SET NAMES 'utf8'", "SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'" ] Cheers Dave P -- David Precious <davidp@preshweb.co.uk> http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/identica www.lyricsbadger.co.uk "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)