[Catalyst] base controller

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:47:06PM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to use some subroutines in more controllers, and I think the best 
> idea would be to create a base controller that contains those subroutines.
> 
> Is it a good idea to create a
> MyApp::Controller::Base
> which is based on
> Catalyst::Controller

I'd create MyApp::ControllerBase::Whatever

> then to use
> use base MyApp::Controller::Base;

but yes, use base is the right way to go.

> When I am developing the controller modules, I use to run the current 
> module in order to see if it compiles successfully, for fixing the errors.
> If I use a controller in another controller, using "use" or "use base", the 
> program gives an error when trying to compile it, because it can't find the 
> controller it depends on.

perl -Ilib lib/MyApp/Controller/Foo.pm

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