[sf-perl] What's DBIx

[frosty]

The main point is that the DBIx::Class project is the new hotness in database interfaces.  It's everything Class::DBI could have become but didn't.

It's the preferred "M" (Model) in Catalyst's MVC, but by no means depends on it.

DBIx::Class (often called DBIC for short) is used in all sorts of large production environments, including banks.  It's a very, very powerful object-relational mapping system (ORM) and I highly recommend it.

However, if you just need to do a little bit of database interaction it's probably overkill.  But for anything sufficiently complex that you start drawing entity-relationship diagrams, you should consider DBIC.

-- f.
 
On Wednesday, July 09, 2008, at 03:59PM, "Joe Brenner" <doom at kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
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>yary <not.com at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com> wrote:
>> > yary wrote:
>> >
>> >> Is DBIx just a namespace to group various DBI-related modules
>> >
>> > Yes.
>>
>> thanks!
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>I think the "x" just means "extension" -- it's a way to distinguish
>that something is based on DBI, but is not part of DBI.
>
>You'll notice there's also a "MasonX::" namespace on CPAN.
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