Sawyer X

I've also used File::ShareDir but always ran into the problem where it seems to only work after the module is installed, which makes it not very useful for development. I never thought of the build trick, I'll have to give that a go.

What I usually do is saying something like "get from File::ShareDir, or if in Author mode (which I figure out using various ugly methods involving looking for certain types of files on the filesystem) I'll get a root directory with Findlib. I've also seem people use Class::Inspector for this.

Another way (from some point of view better):

perl -Mblib bin/your_app

Hi Folks

Here's what I do (in a Moose-based class) to set the attribute config_file_path:

sub BUILD
{
my($self) = @_;
my($name) = '.htoffice.cms.conf';

my($path);

for (keys %INC)

{

	next if ($_ !~ m|App/Office/CMS/Util/Config.pm|);

	($path = $INC{$_}) =~ s|Util/Config.pm|$name|;

}

$self -> config_file_path($path);

# Check [global].

$self -> config(Config::Tiny -> read($path) );

etc

} # End of Build.

Then before installation you tell you app to look in the dev dir, and after installation you don't have to tell it anything.

If you're running Dist::Zilla, you can use "dzil run". So I'm doing this:


dzil run 'twiggy bin/myapp'


You don't even need to add the -Iblib/lib, that is already set up via environment vars. Including the things needed for File::ShareDir, specifically.

The right thing to do here is use Test::File::ShareDir from your tests, which does the right thing with your @INC so the local share directory can be found:

```
use Test::File::ShareDir -share => { -dist => { 'My-Dist-Name' => 'share' } };
```