I don't know if these is really a query about Dancer::Plugin or simple Perl module usage in which I'm a bit confused. But ever since I started my mini-blog engine with several of Dancer::Plugin's, it has grown to long to follow, so I decided to separate it by routes just like the cookbook suggested. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dancer/lib/Dancer/Cookbook.pod#Using_the_prefix_... My problem comes when I want to separate functions, and interexchange them between each different prefix route file in which my routes are divided. For instance, in my feed routes file I call a function that creates a database handler from Dancer::Plugin::Database, and from most of my routes files I use this database handler. But each section does a different SQL query to a different table depending on the entry. So I came up with a package that calls Dancer::Plugin:Database, and works around with the two tables logic. package log::db; use strict; use Dancer::Plugin; use Dancer::Plugin::Database; register _connect_db => sub { my $db = database(); return $db; }; register _sql => sub { my ($table, $url) = @_; my $db = _connect_db(); my $sth = $db->quick_select($table, { url => $url}) or die $db->errstr; return $sth; }; register_plugin; 1; ... This is the feed route file: package log::feed; use Dancer ':syntax'; use log::db; use Dancer::Plugin::Feed; use DateTime::Format::Strptime; sub _feed_sql { my $db = _connect_db(); my $sql = 'select id, title, url, text, datetime from entries order by id desc'; my $sth = $db->prepare($sql) or die $db->errstr; $sth->execute or die $sth->errstr; my $entries = $sth->fetchall_arrayref({}); return $entries; } ... So I don't know if I'm doing the best practice habit, because that is my work around. So I'm asking what would be the best way or the "Perl way" for a kwalitee package. I find these more clean and helpful than doing a full-on Perl module, which never seem to work for me. Modules are still too abstract for me. My apologies for a huge mail. Cheers.