Devin Austin: May 2009 Archives

You've read the tutorial but you still can't seem to get a grasp on what exactly to use Chained dispatching for.

Chained is just another method of method/url dispatching that Catalyst allows you to use. Chained, however, allows you to chain together methods that need to share information across requests....

I was in #catalyst working on some Varnish (or at least attempting to get it working) when someone had an issue with DBIx::Class.  I wasn't really paying attention until someone mentioned that ORMs are evil and they could look at KiokuDB as an alternative.  It's a Moose based OO database system (object graph storage engine [thanks dandv]).  Today we'll take a quick peek at Kiokudb.