You are correct that there is a somewhat steep ramp to using DBIC. :( You have to get your schema first. Today is a bad day for me to do a short tutorial on it or I would.

The things you can read to help get set-up are–

• DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader (which can generate your schema for you automatically if your foreign/primary keys are correct) and the dbicadmin utility
• DBIx::Class::Manual::Intro
• DBIx::Class::Manual::Example
• DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook
• DBIx::Class::Manual::FAQ
• DBIx::Class::Manual::Joining

It's probably tempting to jump ahead to the join stuff but you'll have a much easier time if you get the basics around schema generation and connection down first. DBIC is difficult to pick up. It took me quite a while but it's really been worth it. Rose::DB is a highly regarded alternative which has better performance but, I'd say, less flexibility and community support. Also worth at least knowing about are Fey and KiokuDB... Viva la Perl5.

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