in reply to Re^3: Placing Catalyst Database Connections Settings Outside .conf File
in thread Placing Catalyst Database Connections Settings Outside .conf File

This might be what you're after.

  dsn => 'dbi:SQLite:' . SamPool->path_to('/data/SamPool.db'),

If not, check out Config::JFDI. Many Cat devs use this to consume the application's configuration in different contexts.

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