OK, after all these years, I'm finally learning how to create a proper Perl module (yeah, I'm lame). I stumbled upon Module::Starter along with Damian Conway's plugin for it. These seem like great tools for helping me get up and running quickly and doing testing and making sure I document my code.

After installing these two modules, I can now issue a command like module-starter MyModule in my personal module library at ~/perl/perl-lib, (which I have in @INC) and it will set up all the files and the directory structures for testing and packaging my module. Sweet!

But when I go edit the module that was automatically generated for me at ~/perl/perl-lib/MyModule/lib/MyModule and run tests, I get an error: 

t/00.load.t ....... 1/1 
#   Failed test 'use MyModule;'
#   at t/00.load.t line 4.
#     Tried to use 'MyModule'.
#     Error:  Can't locate MyModule.pm in @INC (you may need to instal
+l the MyModule module) (@INC contains: /home/steve/perl/perl-lib /etc
+/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.2 /usr/local/share/pe
+rl/5.20.2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/
+lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20 /usr/share/perl/5.20 /usr/local/lib/si
+te_perl .) at t/00.load.t line 4.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/00.load.t line 4.

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Now I know I'm getting this error because MyModule.pm is in the MyModule/lib directory. While I could simply add the full path to the test files, I'm assuming there's a better way to handle this. Can someone please clue me in? Thanks.

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