Environments for Mojolicious

Back in the days when i was working on Catalyst, i thought it would be a great idea to have a special debug environment. You could activate it with a simple -Debug flag in the import list. But what if your development process has more stages than development and production? Right, you are screwed. That's why we've decided to use a more ambitious concept we call Modes in Mojolicious, where you can have an unlimited number of different environments.

package MyApp;
use base 'Mojolicious';

sub production_mode {
    my $self = shift;

    # Production templates
    $self->renderer->root('/Users/production/templates');
}

sub development_mode {
    my $self = shift;

    # Development templates
    $self->renderer->root('/Users/dev/templates');
}

sub startup {
    my $self = shift;

    # Default templates for everything else
    $self->renderer->root('/Users/defaul/templates');
}

1;

As you can see we've chosen a very minimalistic approach that feels in line with the rest of Mojolicious. Switching between modes is as easy as changing a environment variable.

% MOJO_MODE=production bin/my_app daemon