minimalist

Building a complex web app almost never goes without the need to write a handful of command line tools. Whether it's to alter the database schema, convert image files, or move records from one format to another, you know you'll have to create a bin directory and fill it up with CLTs.

The Perl Kelp web framework makes this task easy with its robust and flexible configuration module. The default config file lives in conf/config.pl and contains a Perl hash of configuration options. For example:

# conf/config.pl
{
    modu…