NAME

MooseX::Runnable - tag a class as a runnable application

SYNOPSIS

Create a class, tag it runnable, and provide a run method:

package App::HelloWorld;
use Moose;

with 'MooseX::Runnable';

sub run {
   my $name = shift;
   say "Hello, $name.";
   return 0; # success
}

Then you can run this class as an application with the included mx-run script:

$ mx-run App::HelloWorld jrockway
Hello, jrockway.
$

MooseX::Runnable supports MooseX::Getopt, and other similar systems (and is extensible, in case you have written such a system).

DESCRIPTION

MooseX::Runnable is a framework for making classes runnable applications. This role doesn't do anything other than tell the rest of the framework that your class is a runnable application that has a run method which accepts arguments and returns the process' exit code.

This is a convention that the community has been using for a while. This role tells the computer that your class uses this convention, and let's the computer abstract away some of the tedium this entails.

REQUIRED METHODS

THINGS YOU GET

mx-run

This is a script that accepts a MooseX::Runnable class and tries to run it, using MooseX::Runnable::Run.

The syntax is:

mx-run <args for mx-run> -- Class::Name <args for Class::Name>

for example:

mx-run -Ilib -- App::HelloWorld --args --go --here

or:

mx-run -Ilib +Persistent --port 8080 -Persistent -- App::HelloWorld --args --go --here
=head2 C<MooseX::Runnable::Run>

If you don't want to invoke your app with mx-run, you can write a custom version using MooseX::Runnable::Run.