NAME
    Dancer::Plugin::DBIC - DBIx::Class interface for Dancer applications

VERSION
    version 0.1505

SYNOPSIS
        use Dancer;
        use Dancer::Plugin::DBIC 'schema';

        get '/users/:id' => sub {
            my $user = schema->resultset('User')->find(param 'id');
            template user_profile => {
                user => $user
            };
        };

        dance;

DESCRIPTION
    This plugin makes it very easy to create Dancer applications that
    interface with databases. It automatically exports the keyword "schema"
    which returns a DBIx::Class::Schema object. You just need to configure
    your database connection information. For performance, schema objects
    are cached in memory and are lazy loaded the first time they are
    accessed.

CONFIGURATION
    Configuration can be done in your Dancer config file. This is a minimal
    example:

        plugins:
          DBIC:
            default:
              dsn: dbi:SQLite:dbname=some.db

    In this example, there are 2 databases configured named default and foo.

        plugins:
          DBIC:
            default:
              dsn: dbi:SQLite:dbname=some.db
              schema_class: My::Schema
            foo:
              dsn:  dbi:mysql:foo
              schema_class: Foo::Schema
              user: bob
              pass: secret
              options:
                RaiseError: 1
                PrintError: 1

    Each database configured must have a dsn option. The dsn option should
    be the DBI driver connection string. All other options are optional.

    If a schema_class option is not provided, then
    DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader will be used to dynamically load the schema
    based on the dsn value. This is for convenience only and should not be
    used in production. See "SCHEMA GENERATION" below for caveats.

    The schema_class option, should be a proper Perl package name that
    Dancer::Plugin::DBIC will use as a DBIx::Class::Schema class.
    Optionally, a database configuation may have user, pass, and options
    parameters as described in the documentation for "connect()" in DBI.

    You may also declare your connection information in the following format
    (which may look more familiar to DBIC users):

        plugins:
          DBIC:
            default:
              connect_info:
                - dbi:mysql:foo
                - bob
                - secret
                -
                  RaiseError: 1
                  PrintError: 1

USAGE
    This plugin provides just the keyword "schema" which returns a
    DBIx::Class::Schema object ready for you to use. If you have configured
    only one database, then you can call "schema" with no arguments:

        my $user = schema->resultset('User')->find('bob');

    If you have configured multiple databases, then you must give "schema()"
    the name of the database as an argument:

        my $user = schema('foo')->resultset('User')->find('bob');

SCHEMA GENERATION
    This plugin provides flexibility in defining schemas for use in your
    Dancer applications. Schemas can be generated manually by you and
    defined in your configuration file using the "schema_class" setting as
    illustrated above, which is the recommended approach for performance and
    stability.

    It is also possible to have schema classes automatically generated via
    introspection (powered by DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader) if you omit the
    "schema_class" directive; this is not encouraged for production use,
    however.

    You can, of course, use the dbicdump command-line utility provided by
    DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader to ease the generation of your schema
    classes.

AUTHORS
    *   Al Newkirk <awncorp@cpan.org>

    *   Naveed Massjouni <naveed.massjouni@rackspace.com>

    *   Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@sukria.net>

    *   Franck Cuny <franck@lumberjaph.net>

    *   David Precious <davidp@preshweb.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2010 by awncorp.

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