On Feb 25, 2012, at 3:39 AM, Tomas Doran wrote: >>> Or maybe there's a reason why there's not an obvious hook and someone can >>> point me to the pitfalls I'm not seeing. > > It's not totally obvious as you can't do this at process startup (as you then > fork!),
Yeah, I just realized that that was going to be an issue when I went to attempt this (late yesterday). > so it has to be done in the FCGI process manager really (which does the > forking)… > > You can subclass FCGI::ProcManager and implement: > > sub handling_init { > my $self = shift; > $self->next::method(@_); > MyApp->model('DB')->schema->dbh->ping; # Check we have a DB connection > that's working straight after forking but before starting to handle requests. > } > > You can then pass your fastcgi.pl script the option to use your custom > process manager, and you're sorted. Perfect, thanks! -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- dl...@geeklair.net ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/