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RunApp(3pm)


NAME

   RunApp - A generic module to run web-applications

SYNOPSIS

    use RunApp '-chdir';

    use RunApp;
    use RunApp::Apache;

    my $cmd = shift || 'development';
    my $config = { var => 'value', app_apache => { var_for_apache => 'value'} };
    RunApp->new (app_apache => RunApp::Apache->new
                       (root => catfile (cwd, $_),
                        httpd => '/path/to/httpd'),
                 my_daemon => RunApp::Control::AppControl->new
                       (binary => '/path/to/daemon',
                        args => ['--daemon'],
                        pidfile => '/path/to/daemon.pid',
                       )
                    )->$cmd ($config);

DESCRIPTION

   "RunApp" streamlines the process for configuring applications that
   requires one or more web servers and/or other daemons, during
   development or deployment.

   It builds the config files required by the services from the $config
   hash, such as apache's httpd.conf.

OPTIONS

    use RunApp '-chdir';
    use RunApp qw(-chdir ..);

   This will cause the your script to "chdir" to the base directory.  If
   it's a symbolic link it will be resolved and you will be in the
   directory of where the original script is.  The "lib" directory will be
   added into @INC, and you can use the modules in that path.

   It also takes an optional relative path if want the script to chdir to
   somewhere else.

   This makes it possible for symlinking the your runapp script into
   system's rc.d startup directory.

CONSTRUCTOR

   new (@services)
   @services is actually an hash, with keys being the name of the service,
   and values being "RunApp::Control" objects.  Use an array instead of a
   hash here to retain the order of dispatching.

   The names are used to pick config from the hash, which will be flatten
   into top level of the config hash, when running "build" for the each
   service.

METHODS

   $self->development ($conf)
   Runs "build" and "start", and then waits for SIGINT to <stop> the
   servers.

AUTOLOAD

   All other methods are dispatched to the "RunApp::Control" objects in
   the order called in CONSTRUCTOR.  Note that this is done with
   RunApp::Control dispatching to the "dispatch" method.

SEE ALSO

   RunApp::Apache, RunApp::Control::AppControl, App::Control

AUTHORS

   Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>

   Refactored from works by Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com> and Tom Insam
   <tinsam@fotango.com>.

COPYRIGHT

   Copyright (C) 2002-5, Fotango Ltd.

   This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it
   under the same terms as Perl itself.



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