in reply to Database, session example in rockway book

That is a difficult question to answer: I don't have the Catalyst book and besides, you have "made all the code changes".

Did you already look at Catalyst/Plugin/Session/Store/DBIC.pm line 143 and see what the offending code is?

I wild guess: you don't have a module called DBIC::Session or it is not where Perl / Catalyst thinks it should be.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James