John Napiorkowski wrote: > --- Matt S Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:44:23AM -0700, John >> Napiorkowski wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am seriously considering writing a system to >> create >>> DBIx Classes via a configuration file. Since the >>> default for creating these classes are primarily >>> package method calls I think this could be pretty >>> easy. >> Why? >> >> What would this achieve for you? >> >> (this is not "it's a bad idea", it's "what problem >> are you intending this >> to solve") > > I think the main idea is to push stuff into a > configuration file when it's not code that doing > logical work. This way I can push down some simple > maintenance work to admins. Also I've been playing > with MooseX::IOC lately and thinking about what makes > sense to push into a configuration for the purposes of > being able to manage my applications more easily. > > To be honest I'm on the wall with this particular > idea, which is why I thought to ask the group for > thoughts. > > I have a similar idea which honestly makes more sense > to me, which is to have a quick system to call > $schema->populate against a configuration file. This > is actually quite easy to do, particularly now with > the new multi create logic. Then my database deploy > scripts and tests can be easy to configure.
Sounds like Fixtures to me, and something that I've been meaning to work on for a while now, just not got round to. I guess that would do it really. -ash _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class Wiki: http://dbix-class.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/ IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/trunk/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dbix-class@lists.rawmode.org/
