Perl Dancer

This release provides bugfixes and is compliant with the PSGI/Plack architecture. All of the documentation was rewritten and a cookbook was added. The ability to allow installation of a Dancer application under a virtual location was added.

This is the first stable release of Dancer. This release provides new major features such as cookies and session support (YAML, Memcached). It also ships with a new tiny template engine in order not to require the Template module for very small Web apps. A Syslog logger engine is also provided in order to allow logging to syslog out of the box. The test suite has been heavily enhanced, and more than 80% of the source code is covered.

This release provides a smart error handling system that catches errors and displays a page with information about the error: the exception message, the revelant source code region, the call stack, and a dump of all settings and environment variables. The error handler also behaves differently depending on the running environment, hiding or showing error details accordingly. The helper script that lets the user create a new application from scratch has also been updated to provide a better CSS layout for the default application.

This release provides support for the PSGI/Plack module that lets you mount a Dancer app within an Apache/mod_perl configuration. This release also provides a helper script that can create a new application tree from scratch.

This release fixes a bug that was blocking Dancer from being installed with a Perl interpreter lower than 5.10.0. New features are also provided in this release, like support for YAML configuration files and environments. The test suite counts 208 tests and covers 78.1% of the source code, bringing the global code quality to a good shape.