I'm probably not doing this the right way, I should be generating the new model automatically through some kind of script?

But it's not a 100% standard Catalyst setup, and I'm kind of in a hurry.

I have a set of Models already in the site which look like this:

use utf8;
package Model::DB::Result::Thing;
use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
use strict;
use warnings;
__PACKAGE__->table("things");

# etc. etc. some fields are defined here

__PACKAGE__->add_columns(
  "id",
  {
    data_type         => "integer",
    is_auto_increment => 1,
    is_nullable       => 0,
  },
  "name",
  { data_type => "text", is_nullable => 1 },
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So I need to add another Model along the lines of:

use utf8;
package Model::DB::Result::OtherThing;
use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
use strict;
use warnings;
__PACKAGE__->table("otherthings");

# etc. etc. some fields are defined here

__PACKAGE__->add_columns(
  "id",
  {
    data_type         => "integer",
    is_auto_increment => 1,
    is_nullable       => 0,
  },
  "othername",
  { data_type => "text", is_nullable => 1 },
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And I'm doing it by the naïve method of putting a new OtherThing.pm into the same directory, restarting, and trying to call on it from a Controller.

This doesn't work and I get [error] Caught exception in Console::Controller::OtherThing->create "Can't call method "create" on an undefined value at /var/www/Payment/Console/lib/Console/Controller/OtherThing.pm line xx."

Where the undefined thing is $c->model('OtherThing')

So is there some other flag or listing or module which controls which of my Models get loaded? There's a load_namespaces step in booting up Catalyst, I know that much.

Happy to do it the correct way via the correct script if I can, but I need to get it working either way.

I can see the Model being loaded when Catalyst starts up, by the way:

[debug] Loaded components:
.---------------------------------------------------------------------
+------------------------------------+----------.
| Class                                                               
+                                    | Type     |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+------------------------------------+----------+
| Console::Controller::OtherThing                                     
+                                    | instance |
|                                              [snip]                 
+                                    |          |
| Console::Model::DB::Thing                                           
+                                    | class    |
| Console::Model::DB::OtherThing                                      
+                                    | class    |
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