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package Activator;

our $version = '.90';

1;

__END__

=head1 NAME

Activator Development Framework - Object Oriented framework to ease
creation and rapid development of multi-developer distributed mixed
environment perl based software projects, especially Catalyst based
websites.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

=head2 Overview

Activator provides modules to support rapid software development throughout the software life-cycle:

=over

=item *

Role-based project configuration supporting development, QA, and production needs

=item *

A globally accessible variable registry for all components within a project including the Catalyst web app, crons and daemons

=item *

Key/Value dictionary lookups provide context sensitive messages to users and/or logs

=item *

Template based email using a role-based delivery mechanism

=item *

Role based logging utilizing Log4Perl

=item *

Global database access definitions allowing generic abstraction of database queries (supports intentionally avoiding an ORM)

=item *

Role and configuration file aware command line options processing

=back


=head2 Motivation

We are users of Catalyst. We love it, but sometimes making all the
parts of our projects play nice together within our eco-system is
difficult. As software would travel from inception to development, to
QA, to production, there were always design issues that would crop up
making someones' life difficult. Activator eases the pain. If you
don't use Activator, you have to go through great pains to avoid these
problems:

=over

=item *

Make sure that all developers don't forget to use the correct database connections

=item *

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     Template::Plugin::HTML::Strip

On a CentOS system, this should get you going with Catalyst:

yum install perl-Catalyst-Runtime \
            perl-Class-Accessor \
            perl-Class-Data-Inheritable \
            perl-YAML \
            perl-Catalyst-Plugin-ConfigLoader \

#     Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst \
#     Catalyst::View::TT \
#     Template::Timer \
#     HTTP::Request::AsCGI \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple \
#     Catalyst::Engine::Apache \
#     Catalyst::Action::RenderView \
#     HTML::Lint \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::User::Hash \
#     WWW::Mechanize \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Store::DBIC \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Credential::Password \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::Roles \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Session \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::Memcached \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Session::State::Cookie \
#     Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::Memcached \



#yum install \
     perl-Data-Dumper \
     perl-Scalar-Util \
     perl-IO-Capture \
     perl-Exception-Class \
     perl-Test-Exception \
     perl-Test-Pod \
     perl-Hash-Merge \
     perl-Time-HiRes \
     perl-Exception-Class-DBI \
     perl-Crypt-CBC \
     perl-Crypt-Blowfish \
     perl-MIME-Lite \
     perl-HTML-Entities \
     perl-Template-Plugin-HTML-Strip \


     python-crypto python-paramiko memcached


cd /root/downloads/activator-rpms && rpm -Hiv \
     perl-Class-StrongSingleton-0.02-1.noarch.rpm \
     perl-Data-Validate-IP-0.08-1.noarch.rpm \
     perl-Data-Validate-URI-0.04-1.noarch.rpm \
     perl-Exception-Class-TryCatch-1.10-1.noarch.rpm

=head1 FUTURE WORK

Please see the project blueprints (AKA: todo list) on launchpad: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/activator-framework

=head1 SEE ALSO

 L<Activator::DB>
 L<Activator::Registry>
 L<Activator::Exception>
 L<Activator::Log>
 L<Activator::Pager>
 L<Activator::Dictionary>
 L<Activator::Options>
 L<Activator::Tutorial>

=head1 AUTHOR

Karim A. Nassar

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007 Karim A. Nassar <karim.nassar@acm.org>

You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.

=cut