[Dancer-users] how to run function from app from command line?

[David Precious]

On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 10:25 +0600, Nick Knutov wrote:
> Thanks! Look like exactly what I need.
> 
> btw, is there any way to run 'before' in such scripts?

Well, 'before' handlers are supposed to run before a request; given that
you're looking at a script where there is no request, I think them not
running is correct and expected.

> I changed
> 
> before sub {...}
> 
> to
> 
> sub _init {...}
> before sub {_init()};  # in main app
> 
> app::_init(); # in Dancer ':script' app
> 
> but this is ugly.

It'll do the job, even if a little ugly.

Personally, if it's code that should run on startup before any requests
are processed, I'd just put it in the script as-is, rather than in a
before handler - e.g.

use Dancer qw(:script);

# my initialisation code goes here

# now declare routes



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