What many of us do, probably most of the experienced Cat devs, is to keep the schema separate from the Cat app, though often in the same namespace. So you have MyApp::Schema and MyApp::Schema::Tables or MyApp::Schema::FatModel and then your model class is nothing but an import of the schema with some connection information for the application. 

package MyApp::Model::DB;

use strict;
use base qw/ Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema /;

__PACKAGE__->config
    (
     schema_class => 'MyApp::Schema',
# et cetera

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It can be confusing at first because the abstractions are pretty deep but it's very powerful and lets you reuse your schema anywhere (command line, standalone service, one-offs) without loading your app since it ignores anything outside the M/V/C namespaces.

In reply to Re: Best Practice: Catalyst and DBIx::Class by Your Mother
in thread Best Practice: Catalyst and DBIx::Class by confused_elf

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