I was just in a room with three competent, professional Perl developers, all of whom agreed that you can’t strip whitespace from both ends of a string in a single regexp. (more…)

For the first time in more than five years, I got bit by autovivification.  It’s one of those odd quirks of Perl that I’d read about, and heard the problems with but never bumped in to them.

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This just took me two hours to debug, so I thought I’d go ahead and turn it in to a post…

Summary

Catalyst supports reading a config file. usually called myapp.conf.  You can also add extra configuration, but figuring out where it goes took me ages.

In a nutshell, Catalyst will read myapp.conf and myapp_local.conf.

You can change what the ‘local’ part in that is by setting an environment variable called MYAPP_CONFIG_LOCAL_SUFFIX or one called CATALYST_CONFIG_LOCAL_SUFFIX.

If MYAPP_CONFIG_LOCAL_SUFFIX is set, CATALYST_CONFIG_LOCAL_SUFFIX is apparently ignored.  (You don’t get two additional config files, just the one.)

MYAPP_CONFIG_LOCAL_SUFFIX applies only to MyApp, where CATALYST_CONFIG_LOCAL_SUFFIX will be applied to any Catalyst app.  Be careful with it. (more…)