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NAME

rdbic.pl - Instant CRUD webapp for your database using RapidApp/Catalyst/DBIx::Class

SYNOPSIS

rdbic.pl DSN[,USER,PW] [options]

rdbic.pl --dsn DSN[,USER,PW] [options]
rdbic.pl SQLITE_DB [options]

Options:
  --help          Display this help screen and exit
  --dsn           Valid DBI dsn connect string (+ ,user,pw) - REQUIRED
  --schema-class  DBIC schema class name (blank/non-existant to auto-generate with Schema::Loader)
  --port          Local TCP port to use for the test server (defaults to 3500)
  --tmpdir        To use a different dir than is returned by File::Spec->tmpdir()
  --no-cleanup    To leave auto-generated files on-disk after exit (in tmpdir)
  --app-class     Name to use for the generated app (defaults to 'rDbicServer')
  --run-webapi    EXPERIMENTAL: Run WebAPI::DBIC w/ HAL Browser instead of RapidApp
  --metakeys      EXPERIMENTAL: Path to a RapidApp::Util::MetaKeys data file

  --crud-profile  One of five choices to broadly control CRUD interface behavior (see below)

   -I  Specifies Perl library include paths, like "perl"'s -I option. You
       may add multiple paths by using this option multiple times.

CRUD Profiles:
  * editable         Full CRUD is enabled with 'persist_immediately' turned off globally which 
                     means the user has to click "Save" to apply queued-up changes (DEFAULT)

  * edit-instant     Full CRUD is enabled with 'persist_immediately' turned on. Changes are
                     applied as soon as the cell is blurred after making a change

  * edit-gridadd     Same as 'editable' except new rows are added directly to the grid 
                     instead of displaying an add record form

  * ed-inst-gridadd  Same as 'edit-instant' except new rows are added directly to the grid;
                     "Save" must still be clicked before the row is actually inserted

  * read-only        No create/update/delete interfaces at all (rapidapp.pl default)

Examples:
  rdbic.pl dbi:mysql:dbname,root,''
  rdbic.pl to/any/sqlite_db_file
  rdbic.pl dbi:mysql:somedb,someusr,smepass --port 5005 --tmpdir /foo --no-cleanup

  rdbic.pl --dsn dbi:mysql:database=somedb,root,''
  rdbic.pl --port 4001 --dsn dbi:SQLite:/path/to/sqlt.db
  rdbic.pl --dsn dbi:SQLite:/path/to/sqlt.db --tmpdir . --no-cleanup
  rdbic.pl my_sqlt.db --crud-profile=edit-gridadd
  rdbic.pl dbi:Pg:dbname=foo,usr,1234 --crud-profile=edit-instant
  rdbic.pl dbi:mysql:foo,root,'' --run-webapi

  rdbic.pl my_sqlt.db -Ilib --schema-class My::Existing::Schema

DESCRIPTION

rdbic.pl is a handy utility which fires up a fully-functional RapidDbic/RapidApp application for a given database/DSN on-the-fly with a single shell command. This avoids having to bootstrap a real application with a name, config, directory, etc with rapidapp.pl or catalyst. All that needs to be supplied to rdbic.pl is a DSN, although additional options are also available.

rdbic.pl can be used to replace tools like Navicat or PhpMyAdmin for a general-purpose database client.

Internally, rdbic.pl simply bootstraps a new application using RapidApp::Helper in the same manner as rapidapp.pl, but the new app is generated in a temporary directory and immediately launched using the standard Catalyst test server, all in one swoop.

The generated/temporary files are automatically cleaned up on exit unless the --no-cleanup option is supplied.

You can also specify the location of the temporary directory with the --tmpdir option (defaults to /tmp or whatever is returned by File::Spec->tmpdir). If you combine with --no-cleanup you can easily get the full working Catalyst/RapidApp app which was generated, for later use. For instance, these options will create and leave the generated app files within the current directory:

--tmpdir . --no-cleanup

A shorthand first argument syntax is also supported. If the first argument looks like a dsn (starts with 'dbi:') then it will be used as the dsn without having to supply --dsn first. Additionally, if the first argument is a path to an existing regular file it is assumed to be an SQLite database file, and the appropriate dsn (i.e. "dbi:SQLite:$ARGV[0]") is used automatically.

rdbic.pl is a wrapper around Plack::App::RapidApp::rDbic which can be used directly in Plack-based setups and provides additional options and functionality not exposed in this script.

See Plack::App::RapidApp::rDbic for more information.

The rdbic.pl script and rDbic Plack App were also featured in the 2014 Catalyst Advent Calendar:

SEE ALSO

RapidApp, rapidapp.pl, Plack::App::RapidApp::rDbic

SUPPORT

IRC:

Join #rapidapp on irc.perl.org.

AUTHOR

Henry Van Styn <vanstyn@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by IntelliTree Solutions llc.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.