Comments on: PerlCritic for Web Developers

By: fREW Schmidt

fREW Schmidt — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:12:33 +0000

@Robert: Hopefully this will be put on CPAN yes, but I figured that it would be better to get it out there first. I don’t know when though. Also, Catalyst is way too big, as far as I can tell, to use for this. If you want a standalone server CGI::Application::Server will do the trick. I may look into that at some point.

@Jonathan: I use CGI::Application at $work and I used it at school. It works really well and it’s very lightweight.

@j1n3l0: not really though; perlcritic.com requires you to actively submit your source. This runs locally and monitors all files matching a certain pattern (.pm, .pl, .t, .plx) and gives criticisms on all of them. The idea here is to make it ridiculously easy to get criticisms on your source once everything is set up.

@beppu: that’s probably not even required. I just type the use feature line whenever I make a new perl file. I don’t think this uses any of 5.10. Comment out those lines and see if it still works.

@derby: Damian Conway recommends using set/get methods in Perl Best Practices (page 340.) I will make another post on just Moose later on so stay tuned

By: derby

derby — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:28:10 +0000

Thanks for the write-up. I’m just starting with Moose and I like real code like this to help me wrap my head around it. Just one question, Why did you set reader and writer attributes for directory? Was that just a personal preference over using the default?

By: beppu

beppu — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:30:19 +0000

You should probably mention somewhere that perl 5.10 is required for this. I just tried running this, and my poor old 5.8.8 installation didn’t get past the `use feature ’5.10′` line.

By: j1n3l0

j1n3l0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:25:42 +0000

This sounds very similar to perlcritic.com. Have you had a look at that yet?

By: Jonathan Rockway

Jonathan Rockway — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:57:06 +0000

CGI::Application and not HTTP::Engine? Why?

By: Robert Barta

Robert Barta — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:15:41 +0000

My thoughts:

- Will it be CPANized?

- Any chance to slim down the architecture and
simply have a Catalyst controller instead of
yet another tiny server to take care of?

If one wants a standalone server, then the
catalystic one could be used.