I don't have any good tutorials or examples to link right now but I wanted to say it's not your fault. DBIC covers some complicated ground and the docs miss many edge cases, gloss or skip some things which are simple after you understand them, some unusual points of functionality are undocumented or documented three modules away in places like SQL::Abstract or SQL::Translator, et cetera. Since we're on the topic, reading the internals to learn more is quite difficult. So, if someone recommends that, you might keep asking. :)

The DBIC mailing list is friendly and some of the core devs hang out on the irc channel often. So, if you can break your hurdles down to manageable bits, you can definitely get help and sometimes spark doc patches doing so. You can ask here too, of course. If you want to write a tutorial as you learn, it's a great time; it could be part of: The Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition. Most DBIC power users forget the things they needed to learn to get into it.

Update: I forgot half the point: It's difficult but I have found it entirely worth it. With DBIC I can do things like develop DB schemas on the fly because my code will simply adjust itself to whatever harebrained table/relationship changes I want to try out. Inflation, versioning, auto-deployment, result set extension and chaining, and more have saved me at least 10x the time I put into picking up DBIC and the ratio only improves over time. So, stick with it. :)

Update 2: I found this really helpful dbix-masterclass.xul though it's not an entry level "talk."

Update 2017-04-23: linked module names.

In reply to Re: Looking for DBIx::Class tutorials and examples by Your Mother
in thread Looking for DBIx::Class tutorials and examples by morgon

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