my $DOCUMENT_ROOT = '...';

This line is precisely the problem. In other frameworks I do not need to set the document root explicitly by hand inside the application. The webserver does this and the application just picks it up through $ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}. The document root will necessarily vary depending upon how and where the app is deployed (eg. dev vs production) so I don't want anything inside the app itself to explicitly specify a document root with an absolute path.

I'm getting the impression that Mojolicious is unable to tell where its own document root is, which seems odd. Hopefully that's just a misconception on my part. The closest thing so far which works is this:

use Cwd;
$ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT} //= getcwd . '/..';
plugin 'tt_renderer' => {
    template_options => {
        INCLUDE_PATH => [
            "$ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/../templates/lib",
            ...
        ],
        ENCODING => 'utf8',
    }
};

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But it's far from elegant and relies on the application being one level below the docroot.

Update: Actually, thinking further there isn't really any need for the app to be under the docroot at all. I suppose it could be placed outside the docroot in a fixed position with respect to the templates dir and could load it from there, so INCLUDE_PATH would just be ../templates/lib for instance. That seems a better compromise and will also work for @INC.

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In reply to Re^6: Mojolicious with Template Toolkit by hippo
in thread Mojolicious with Template Toolkit by hippo

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