Hi there I'm developing a Catalyst website and have kind of been learning as I'm going along, but now know enough (almost) to go and rewrite chunks of it. Up until now I've been doing my create / update error checking in my controller (which I know is not recommended) - I'm now moving it to the model, but have hit a snag. Consider a table ('clubs'), one of whose columns ('venue') has a 'belongs_to' relationship with another table ('venues'). Previously, to do my error checking, I've been able to do something like this: 
my $venue_check = $c->model("DB::Venue")->find($venue);
$error .= "The venue is not valid.\n" if !defined($venue_check);

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Now from my model Resultset class, I can check anything in the current table with $self->find(), etc., but am unsure how to query a different table without passing in $c as one of the arguments from the controller (which is obviously regarded as a cardinal sin and kind of defeats the object of doing it in the model). Many thanks in advance for any assistance. Chris

In reply to Catalyst / DBIx::Class - accessing a different table from the model by mkchris

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