So I'm learning oop through this tutorial I found.
Perl Objects Tutorial

I've gotten about half way down with the tutorial and I keep getting the same error "Can't find object method 'new' via ..."

I get the warning TutorialConfig is successfully loaded but the new method doesn't seem to be loading.

Here is the TutorialConfig.pm

#!/usr/bin/perl

package TutorialConfig;

warn "TutorialConfig is successfully loaded!\n";
1;

sub new {
        my ($class_name) = @_;

        my ($self) = {};
        warn "We just created our new variable...\n ";

        bless ($self, $class_name);
        warn "and now it's a $class_name object!\n";

        $self->{'_created'} = 1;
        return $self;
}

   sub read {
      my ($self, $file) = @_;
      my ($line, $section);

      open (CONFIGFILE, $file) or return 0;

      # We'll set a special property
      # that tells what filename we just read.
      $self->{'_filename'} = $file;



      while ($line = <CONFIGFILE>) {

         # Are we entering a new section?
         if ($line =~ /^\[(.*)\]/) {
            $section = $1;
         } elsif ($line =~ /^([^=]+)=(.*)/) {
            my ($config_name, $config_val) = ($1, $2);
            if ($section) {
               $self->{"$section.$config_name"} = $config_val;
            } else {
               $self->{$config_name} = $config_val;
            }
         }
      }

      close CONFIGFILE;
      return 1;
   }
    sub get {
        my ($self, $key) = @_;

        return $self->{$key};
    }
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Here is the test.pl

    use TutorialConfig;

    $tut = new TutorialConfig;
    $tut->read('tutc.txt') or die "Couldn't read config file: $!";

    print "The author's first name is ", 
             $tut->get('author.firstname'), 
             ".\n";
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