Beginner's guide for Perl Dancer.

pmu has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Respected Monks,

I have been through the Dancer documentation and have searched the net as well. Yet, I do not come across a document that explains Dancer in complete details or something that written for folks who know basic Perl.

I have some basic Perl Scripting knowledge created a few scripts that capture, filter and e-mail outputs of certain commands. I now want to put the same reports on a webpage, where people can type in the serial number of the array and get the alerts. I want to build a webpage wherein, say for example, a user can put in the name of a server and get the details such as how much storage its accessing and from which storage arrays etc etc.

I also feel that my lack of knowledge is preventing me from understanding the basic dancer concepts. So how do I go about it?

Any pointers, suggestions would really help.

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Re: Beginner's guide for Perl Dancer. by Anonymous Monk on Apr 19, 2014 at 08:01 UTC
I have been through the Dancer documentation and have searched the net as well. Yet, I do not come across a document that explains Dancer in complete details or something that written for folks who know basic Perl. What did you find and read, and what was missing from each? I think http://perldancer.org/ is what you're looking for, but if its not, I'd like to know why :) I think you should start by watching the video to learn about the internet / Re: How to display output in separate html form in cgi script / Re: HTML Form not workin (cgi-bin is not for html, its for cgis) After that learning dancer is trivial :) because Dancer and CGI are just ways for computer programs to speak internet, you should learn about the internet :) Re: How does Dancer handle forms? How do other such frameworks do it? Web Programming: For Beginners	[reply]
Re: Beginner's guide for Perl Dancer. by Anonymous Monk on Apr 19, 2014 at 12:49 UTC
Look at a real website such as Dancer's own website on GitHub. Take it apart.	[reply]
Re: Beginner's guide for Perl Dancer. by sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Apr 20, 2014 at 01:27 UTC
Today, by far the best way to learn <<anything>> is to “look for an existing example ... not just a demo, but an example of a real thing ... then ~~reverse engineer~~ figure out how it works.” Github is an excellent resource for doing that, although not the only one. I have also found that it is very beneficial to “use the Source, Luke!” In other words, look through the actual source-code of <<Dancer>>. Very often, you will find comments in that source-code which give you strong clues as to “the designer’s intent.” Maybe the very-most important lesson to learn is that ... you are not the first. There are, by now, thousands of web sites that have been implemented using <<Dancer>> and the complete source-code to many of them can probably somewhere be found. Therefore, you do not have to start at ground-zero on anything, and ground-zero is never (these days) the right place to start.	[reply]
Re: Beginner's guide for Perl Dancer. by pmu (Beadle) on Apr 19, 2014 at 15:28 UTC
Respected Monks, Thank you for your guidance. Another Thank You for not ridiculing me and not asking me to "get off the darn lawn" :) -------------------------------------------------------------- Perspectum cognitio aeterna --------------------------------------------------------------	[reply]
Re: Beginner's guide for Perl Dancer. by Anonymous Monk on Apr 19, 2014 at 17:24 UTC
Most Monks won't belittle you. (There are fairly-notable exceptions.) Welcome.	[reply]