What can I do to Makefile.PL so that when I run make test it runs the test suite with dancer environment set to 'test'?

Question

I would like to be able to just type "make test" in a dancer app toplevel source directory (the one that was generated by "dancer -a appname") and have it run the tests with the environment set to 'test'.

Or if anyone can point me to repository that I can refer to as a sort of "best practice for developing dancer app" for this that would be great!

Answer 1

I did some checking and found the following thread on the dancer-users mailing list:

http://lists.perldancer.org/pipermail/dancer-users/2011-March/001277.html

In a nutshell; In your test files include:

use Dancer::Test;
Dancer::set environment => 'testing';
Dancer::Config->load;

Don't do:

use Dancer;

I've not tested this though; but the user from the post states that it worked for them....

Answer 2

You could modify the makefile to set the DANCER_ENVIRONMENT variable appropriately.

If I had my druthers, just using Dancer::Test would automatically set the environment though.