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Hello,

I'm playing around with Catalyst and since there's this really good module on CPAN called Devel::REPL and an extension for Catalyst called CatalystX::REPL I gave it a spin.

I also had some problems installing Devel::REPL, but I managed to fix that too.

However, I wasn't able to get CatalystX::REPL working after following all the instructions in the documentation. I was just not getting any cursor, Devel::REPL wasn't firing up.

So I had to make my own small hack and so here goes the code I wrote in an action to get a REPL:

use Devel::REPL;

...CATALYST CODE...

sub action_name {
   my ($self,$c) = @_
   ...
   ########### Devel::REPL break
   $Devel::REPL::Plugin::Packages::DefaultScratchpad::ctx = $c;
   my $repl = Devel::REPL->new;
   $repl->load_plugin($_) for qw(History LexEnv Packages PPI);
   $repl->eval('my $c = $Devel::REPL::Plugin::Packages::DefaultScratch
+pad::ctx;');
   $repl->eval('warn "\n\n[USE \$c from Catalyst!!]\n\n;";');
   $repl->run;
   ########### 
   ....
}
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I wanted to ask if there's someone who was able to get CatalystX::REPL working and what settings did you use, maybe there was something I missed.

Thanks,
Stefan

In reply to CatalystX::REPL and having a REPL to debug Catalyst easier by spx2

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