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title: the intentioncloud strike back
category: perl
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I've decided to rewrite the intention cloud. Still with "Catalyst":http://dev.catalystframework.org/wiki/, but I've replaced prototype with "jquery":http://jquery.com this time. I've end up with less code than the previous version. For the moment, only google is available, but I will add overture, and may be more engines.

There is still some bug to fix, some tests to add, and I will be able to restore the "intentioncloud.net":http://intentioncloud.net domain.

It's really easy to plug a database to a catalyst application using "Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema":http://p3rl.org/Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema.  Via the helper, you can tell the model to use "DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader":http://p3rl.org/DBIx:/Class::Schema::Loader, so the table informations will be loaded from the database at runtime. You end up with a code that looks like 

{% highlight perl %}
package intentioncloud::Model::DB;
use strict;
use base 'Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema';
__PACKAGE__->config(schema_class => 'intentioncloud::Schema',);
1;
{% endhighlight %}

and the schema:

{% highlight perl %}
package intentioncloud::Schema;
use strict;
use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader/;
__PACKAGE__->loader_options(relationships => 1);
1;
{% endhighlight %}

Now, to do a query:

{% highlight perl %}
my $rs = $c->model('DB::TableName')->find(1);
{% endhighlight %}

and your done !

The code for the intentioncloud is avaible on "github":http://github.com/franckcuny/intentioncloud/tree/master.