Catalyst

Notes on Catalyst, an MVC web framework for perl.

Installation

Other people's instructions

• Getting this to work on Dreamhost

On Dreamhost with perlbrew

Here, I am using perlbrew instead of the typical instructions, and hope to bypass the whole local::lib thing.

Presume that myperl is a perlbrew environment that's already been set up and that its executable is at

/home/someuser/perl5/perlbrew/perls/myperl/bin/perl

Install modules with cpanm:

perlbrew use myperl
cpanm Catalyst::Runtime Catalyst::Devel

Version check

Run the following, which always fails:

perl -M"Catalyst 999"

If the failure is about a version number, the install worked (and the error displays the version number). Otherwise, there was a problem.

Link catalyst.pl

Instructions and tutorials refer to the bootstrap script catalyst.pl. This is installed in the bin dir of the perlbrew environment:

/home/someuser/perl5/perlbrew/perls/myperl/bin/catalyst.pl

To make this less of a mouthful, make this accessible from your path. In this example, I'll qualify it with the name of the perlbrew env in case I want to set this up for multiple sites; anytime the doc says "catalyst.pl" I'll substitute "myperl-catalyst.pl".

ln -s /home/someuser/perl5/perlbrew/perls/myperl/bin/catalyst.pl ~/bin/myperl-catalyst.pl