Notes, How Tos, Things To Remember, Things I'll soon forget

A few weeks on #dancer channel, a user was having issues using Dancer::Session::PSGI . I've never worked directly with Plack besides reading the handbook and few play apps. (well a few weeks ago, I dug into Dancer::Debug .). Using both together was an intriguing problem stuck in my mind. The person on the channel was reporting unreliable reading of session data and other odd behavior. As I started to dig into the problem, I realized that i need to create two apps, one pure Plack and one Dancer with middleware wrapper. I created a public repo on github with my test apps: Dancer and Plack session . Since, I didn't want to deal with html and wanted a bit of structure with return data, I made both test apps return JSON and have pretty simple routes I started off using the documentation from Plack::Middleware::Session to create this test app : Next I created a Test Dancer PSGI app , which basically had a way to show value and update it. Here is the non-exciting Dancer

The other day someone was asking how to enable Template Toolkit debugging inside of Perl Dancer in the #dancer IRC channel, it seemed like a good time for a write up. The template engine configuration directive supports passing through various options like start_tag and stop_tag as explained in Dancer::Template::TemplateToolkit POD. And alludes to being able to pass other options. How To pass TT options like those found in Template::Constants , there must be a DEBUG section in engines -> template_toolkit , usually found in config.yml . Example Snippet Here is an example: A few notes Remove leading DEBUG_ from TT constants. The option DEBUG_PLUGINS becomes plugins . Multiple options can be separated with a comma. Example: DEBUG: "provider,plugins" . Be warned, some of these options can lead to tons of information :) __END__