#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Getopt::Long; use Pod::Usage; use Catalyst::Helper; my $help = 0; my $nonew = 0; GetOptions( 'help|?' => \$help, 'nonew' => \$nonew ); pod2usage(1) if ( $help || !$ARGV[0] ); my $helper = Catalyst::Helper->new({'.newfiles' => !$nonew}); pod2usage(1) unless $helper->mk_app( $ARGV[0] ); 1; __END__ =head1 NAME catalyst - Bootstrap a Catalyst application =head1 SYNOPSIS catalyst.pl [options] application-name Options: -help display this help and exits -nonew don't create a .new file where a file to be created exists application-name must be a valid Perl module name and can include "::" Examples: catalyst.pl My::App catalyst.pl MyApp =head1 DESCRIPTION The C<catalyst.pl> script bootstraps a Catalyst application, creating a directory structure populated with skeleton files. The application name must be a valid Perl module name. The name of the directory created is formed from the application name supplied, with double colons replaced with hyphens (so, for example, the directory for C<My::App> is C<My-App>). Using the example application name C<My::App>, the application directory will contain the following items: =over 4 =item README a skeleton README file, which you are encouraged to expand on =item Build.PL a C<Module::Build> build script =item Changes a changes file with an initial entry for the creation of the application =item Makefile.PL an old-style MakeMaker script. Catalyst uses the C<Module::Build> system so this script actually generates a Makeifle that invokes the Build script. =item lib contains the application module (C<My/App.pm>) and subdirectories for model, view, and controller components (C<My/App/M>, C<My/App/V>, and C<My/App/C>). =item root root directory for your web document content. This is left empty. =item script a directory containing helper scripts: =over 4 =item C<my_app_create.pl> helper script to generate new component modules =item C<my_app_server.pl> runs the generated application within a Catalyst test server, which can be used for testing without resorting to a full-blown web server configuration. =item C<my_app_cgi.pl> runs the generated application as a CGI script =item C<my_app_fastcgi.pl> runs the generated application as a FastCGI script =item C<my_app_test.pl> runs an action of the generated application from the comand line. =back =item t test directory =back The application module generated by the C<catalyst.pl> script is functional, although it reacts to all requests by outputting the message: Congratulations, My::App is on Catalyst! =head1 NOTE Neither C<catalyst.pl> nor the generated helper script will overwrite existing files. In fact the scripts will generate new versions of any existing files, adding the extension C<.new> to the filename. The C<.new> file is not created if would be identical to the existing file. This means you can re-run the scripts for example to see if newer versions of Catalyst or its plugins generate different code, or to see how you may have changed the generated code (although you do of course have all your code in a version control system anyway, don't you ...). =head1 SEE ALSO L<Catalyst::Manual>, L<Catalyst::Manual::Intro> =head1 AUTHOR Sebastian Riedel <sri@oook.de>, Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk> =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2004-2005 Sebastian Riedel. All rights reserved. This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself. =cut