I'm sure the answer is probably simple, but I haven't yet stumbled onto it. I've been learning DBIx::Class with Catalyst. So far I've been able to figure out how they work together, but I'm stuck on one issue.

I have a many-to-many relationship that joins together three tables which are basically called "page", "chapter", and "book". I can gather resultsets and pass them into Template Toolkit, using them as such:

[% page.book.title %]: [% page.chapter.num %]

which prints out the title and chapter number of the book. My questions is: how can I do that within Catalyst itself? I'm setting up an RSS feed, and I need access to "page.book.num" and "page.chapter.num" to create a url within the feed. I've tried both variations below, as well as others:

# Gets latest 10 results
my $rs = $c->model('DB::Page')->get_rss;

while ( my $page = $rs->next ) {
    my $book    = sprintf( "%02d", $page->book->{num} );
    my $chapter = sprintf( "%02d", $page->chapter->num );
    ...
}

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Neither of those work. The first returns "00". The second produces an error that "num" can't be found. Is there any simple way to do this?

In reply to Accessing many-to-many relationships in Catalyst by LunarCowgirl

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