I've been looking at Maypole as a possible way to crank out simple tools based on an existing schema. After some initial installation headaches, I can't seem to get a trivial example working.

I'm starting with this perl.com article and the CGI::Maypole perldoc as a basis for my experiement. I created this simple "people" table... 

mysql> use test;
Database changed
mysql> describe people;
+-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| it    | int(11)      |      | PRI | 0       |       |
| name  | varchar(255) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| bday  | date         | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
+-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

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...and then i setup this Maypole driver... 

package IsfdbMaypole;
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib qw(/home/hossman/.perllib/lib/perl5/site_perl);
use base 'CGI::Maypole';

IsfdbMaypole->config->uri_base("http://XXXXXXXXXXX/~hossman/maypole\
/");
IsfdbMaypole->config->display_tables([qw[people]]);
IsfdbMaypole->config->rows_per_page(10);
IsfdbMaypole->config->user("hossman");
IsfdbMaypole->config->pass("ZZZZZZZZZZZZ");
IsfdbMaypole->setup("dbi:mysql:test");
1;

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...and this index.cgi in my public_html/maypole directory... 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib qw(/home/hossman/.perllib/lib/perl5/site_perl);
use IsfdbMaypole;
IsfdbMaypole->run();

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The problem I'm running into is this... 

Can't locate object method "set_db" via package "IsfdbMaypole::People"
+ at /home/hossman/.perllib/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Class/DBI/Loader
+/Generic.pm line 173.
Compilation failed in require at /home/hossman/public_html/maypole/ind
+ex.cgi line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/hossman/public_html/maypole
+/index.cgi line 5.

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what is the "set_db" method and why does Class::DBI::Loader::Generic think it needs to be called? Has anyone encountered this error before? Did I do something wrong?

In reply to trying out Maypole: Class::DBI::Loader calling set_db? by hossman

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