Hello Monks,

A seemingly simple question that is currently evading my perl- and google-fu.

How does one reload / restart a Catalyst application during testing? I'm using Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst and want to reload the Catalyst app with a different configuration. Obviously this can easily be done by splitting up the tests into two different files, but I'd prefer to keep them together.

Some pseudocode to demonstrate the situation:


my $mech = Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst->new( catalyst_app => "CoolC
+atalystApp" );
run_tests( $mech );

# the application has various read-only values that get initialised fr
+om the environment
# when the app starts up. Alter those values to test alternative confi
+gs.
change_config();

# what goes here?!
# just creating a new mech does not reflect changes in the environment
+ that
# should result in a different config
missing_step_to_reload_catalyst_app();

run_tests( $mech );

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In reply to Reload a Catalyst application during testing by gwg

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