NAME

Catalyst::Plugin::Setenv - Allows you to set up the environment from Catalyst's config file.

VERSION

Version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

In your application:

    use Catalyst qw/Setenv/;

In your config file:

    environment:
      FOO: bar
      BAR: baz

When your app starts, $ENV{FOO} will be "bar", and $ENV{BAR} will be "baz".

You can also append and prepend to existing environment variables. For example, if $PATH is "/bin:/usr/bin", you can append "/myapp/bin" by writing:

   environment:
     PATH: "::/myapp/bin"

After that, $PATH will be set to "/bin:/usr/bin:/myapp/bin". You can prepend, too:

   environment:
     PATH: "/myapp/bin::"

which yields "/myapp/bin:/bin:/usr/bin".

If you want a literal colon at the beginning or end of the environment variable, escape it with a "\", like "\:foo" or "foo\:". Note that slashes aren't meaningful elsewhere, they're inserted verbatim into the relevant environment variable.

EXPORT

A list of functions that can be exported. You can delete this section if you don't export anything, such as for a purely object-oriented module.

FUNCTIONS

setup

Calls the other setup methods, and then sets the environment variables.

AUTHOR

Jonathan Rockway, "<jrockway at cpan.org>"

BUGS

Escaping

Things like "\:foo" can't be literally inserted into an environment variable, due to my simplistic escaping scheme. Patches to fix this (but not interpert "\"s anywhere else) are welcome.

REPORTING

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-catalyst-plugin-setenv at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Catalyst-Plugin-Setenv>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Catalyst::Plugin::Setenv

You can also look for information at:

The Catalyst Website
<http://www.catalystframework.org/>
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
<http://annocpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Plugin-Setenv>
CPAN Ratings
<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Catalyst-Plugin-Setenv>
RT: CPAN's request tracker
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Catalyst-Plugin-Setenv>
Search CPAN
<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Plugin-Setenv>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Bill Moseley's message to the mailing list that prompted me to write this.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.