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

Those theoretical documents are nice. However, I felt there was a clear need for completely working code samples on a small but realistic database. thus DBIx::Cookbook was born and primarily with examples for DBIx::Class. The first section of the manual of DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook (Searching) is what I took on and completed. The remaining sections remain to be done... contributors welcome!