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diff --git a/posts/2010-04-19-the-dancer-ecosystem.org b/posts/2010-04-19-the-dancer-ecosystem.org deleted file mode 100644 index e155573..0000000 --- a/posts/2010-04-19-the-dancer-ecosystem.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,160 +0,0 @@ -Even though it's still a young project, an active community is starting -to emerge around Dancer. Some modules start to appear on CPAN and github -to add functionalities, or to extend existing ones. - -** Templates - -By default, Dancer comes with support for two templating systems: -Template Toolkit and Dancer::Template::Simple, a small templating engine -written by sukria. But support for other templating systems are -available: - -- Dancer::Template::Tenjin by ido -- Dancer::Template::Sandbox by Sam Graham -- Dancer::Template::Tiny by Sawyer -- Dancer::Template::MicroTemplate by me -- Dancer::Template::Mason by Yanick Champoux -- Dancer::Template::Haml by David Moreno - -** Logger - -Out of the box, Dancer only has a simple logging system to write to -file, but more logging sytems are available: - -#+BEGIN_HTML - <ul> -#+END_HTML - -#+BEGIN_HTML - <li> -#+END_HTML - -Dancer::Logger::Syslog by sukria - -#+BEGIN_HTML - </li> -#+END_HTML - -#+BEGIN_HTML - <li> -#+END_HTML - -Dancer::Logger::LogHandler by me - -#+BEGIN_HTML - </li> -#+END_HTML - -#+BEGIN_HTML - <li> -#+END_HTML - -Dancer::Logger::PSGI by me - -#+BEGIN_HTML - </li> -#+END_HTML - -#+BEGIN_HTML - </ul> -#+END_HTML - -The last one is for writing directly your log message via Plack. You can -use a middleware like P::M::LogDispatch or P::M::Log4perl to handle logs -for your application. Even better, if you use P::M::ConsoleLogger, you -can have logs from your Dancer application in your javascript console. - -** Debug - -To debug your application with Plack, you can use the awesome -Plack::Middleware::Debug. I've writen Dancer::Debug (which requires my -fork of P::M::Debug), a middleware that add panels, with specific -informations for Dancer applications. - -To activate this middleware, update your app.psgi to make it look like -this: - -#+BEGIN_SRC perl - my $handler = sub { - my $env = shift; - my $request = Dancer::Request->new($env); - Dancer->dance($request); - }; - $handler = builder { - enable "Debug", panels => [ - qw/Dancer::Settings Dancer::Logger Environment Memory - ModuleVersions Response Session Parameters Dancer::Version / - ]; - $handler; - }; -#+END_SRC - -** Plugins - -Dancer has support for plugins since a few version. There is not a lot -of plugins at the moment, but this will soon improve. Plugins support is -one of the top priorities for the 1.2 release. - -*** Dancer::Plugin::REST - -This one is really nice. This plugin, used with the serialization stuff, -allow you to write easily REST application. - -#+BEGIN_SRC perl - resource user => get => sub { # return user where id = params->{id} }, - create => sub { # create a new user with params->{user} }, - delete => sub { # delete user where id = params->{id} }, - update => sub { # update user with params->{user} }; -#+END_SRC - -And you got the following routes: - -- GET /user/:id -- GET /user/:id.:format -- POST /user/create -- POST /user/create.:format -- DELETE /user/:id -- DELETE /user/:id.:format -- PUT /user/:id -- PUT /user/:id.:format - -*** Dancer::Plugin::Database - -This plugin, by bigpresh, add the database keyword to your app. - -#+BEGIN_SRC perl - use Dancer; - use Dancer::Plugin::Database; - - # Calling the database keyword will get you a connected DBI handle: - get '/widget/view/:id' => sub { - my $sth = database->prepare('select * from widgets where id = ?', - {}, params->{id}); - $sth->execute; - template 'display_widget', {widget => $sth->fetchrow_hashref}; - }; -#+END_SRC - -*** Dancer::Plugin::SiteMap - -With this plugin, by James Ronan, a sitemap of your application is -created. - -#+BEGIN_HTML - <blockquote> -#+END_HTML - -Plugin module for the Dancer web framwork that automagically adds -sitemap routes to the webapp. Currently adds /sitemap and /sitemap.xml -where the former is a basic HTML list and the latter is an XML document -of URLS. - -#+BEGIN_HTML - </blockquote> -#+END_HTML - -** you can help! :) - -There is still a lot of stuff to do. Don't hesitate to come on -#dancer@irc.perl.org to discuss ideas or new features that you would -like. |