in reply to Perl Catalyst and DBIx::Class best practice question.

"Of course we can't have that purple screen when we move it to production ..."

Just use a different web server configuration (Apache?) for your production server that overrides the stock error page and displays a friendly "Contact admin" splash page instead. The real error should be logged automatically by the web server.

jeffa

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(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)