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NAME

rdbic.pl - Instant CRUD webapp for your database using RapidApp/Catalyst/DBIx::Class

SYNOPSIS

 rdbic.pl DSN[,USER,PW] [options]

 rdbic.pl --dsn DSN[,USER,PW] [options]
 rdbic.pl SQLITE_DB [options]

 Options:
   --help          Display this help screen and exit
   --dsn           Valid DBI dsn connect string (+ ,user,pw) - REQUIRED
   --schema-class  DBIC schema class name (blank/non-existant to auto-generate with Schema::Loader)
   --port          Local TCP port to use for the test server (defaults to 3500)
   --tmpdir        To use a different dir than is returned by File::Spec->tmpdir()
   --no-cleanup    To leave auto-generated files on-disk after exit (in tmpdir)
   --app-class     Name to use for the generated app (defaults to 'rDbicServer')
   --run-webapi    EXPERIMENTAL: Run WebAPI::DBIC w/ HAL Browser instead of RapidApp
   --metakeys      EXPERIMENTAL: Path to a RapidApp::Util::MetaKeys data file

   --loader-option   DBIC::SL name=value opt(s), can be used more than once (same as -o in dbicdump)
   --connect-option  name=value opt(s) to add to connect_info %extra_attributes

   --limit-tables-re     Regex limits included table names (see also 'exclude' loader-option)
   --limit-schemas-re    Regex limits RDBMS 'schema' names (see also 'db_schema' loader-option)
   --exclude-tables-re   Regex string excludes table names 
   --exclude-schemas-re  Regex string excludes RDBMS 'schema' names
   --total-counts-off    Initialize grids with total counts off (useful for very large tables)

   --crud-profile  One of five choices to broadly control CRUD interface behavior (see below)

    -I  Specifies Perl library include paths, like "perl"'s -I option. You
        may add multiple paths by using this option multiple times.

 CRUD Profiles:
   * editable         Full CRUD is enabled with 'persist_immediately' turned off globally which 
                      means the user has to click "Save" to apply queued-up changes (DEFAULT)

   * edit-instant     Full CRUD is enabled with 'persist_immediately' turned on. Changes are
                      applied as soon as the cell is blurred after making a change

   * edit-gridadd     Same as 'editable' except new rows are added directly to the grid 
                      instead of displaying an add record form

   * ed-inst-gridadd  Same as 'edit-instant' except new rows are added directly to the grid;
                      "Save" must still be clicked before the row is actually inserted

   * read-only        No create/update/delete interfaces at all (rapidapp.pl default)

 Examples:
   rdbic.pl dbi:mysql:dbname,root,''
   rdbic.pl to/any/sqlite_db_file
   rdbic.pl dbi:mysql:somedb,someusr,smepass --port 5005 --tmpdir /foo --no-cleanup

   rdbic.pl --dsn dbi:mysql:database=somedb,root,''
   rdbic.pl --port 4001 --dsn dbi:SQLite:/path/to/sqlt.db
   rdbic.pl --dsn dbi:SQLite:/path/to/sqlt.db --tmpdir . --no-cleanup
   rdbic.pl my_sqlt.db --crud-profile=edit-gridadd
   rdbic.pl dbi:Pg:dbname=foo,usr,1234 --crud-profile=edit-instant
   rdbic.pl dbi:mysql:foo,root,'' --run-webapi

   rdbic.pl my_sqlt.db -Ilib --schema-class My::Existing::Schema

   rdbic.pl --dsn \
     'dbi:ODBC:Driver=TDS;TDS_Version=7.0;Server=10.1.2.3;Port=1433;Database=Blah',sa,topsecret \
     --loader-option db_schema='{ Blah => "%" }' --loader-option use_moose=0

DESCRIPTION

rdbic.pl is a handy utility which fires up a fully-functional RapidDbic/RapidApp application for a given database/DSN on-the-fly with a single shell command. This avoids having to bootstrap a real application with a name, config, directory, etc with rapidapp.pl or catalyst. All that needs to be supplied to rdbic.pl is a DSN, although additional options are also available.

rdbic.pl can be used to replace tools like Navicat or PhpMyAdmin for a general-purpose database client.

Internally, rdbic.pl simply bootstraps a new application using RapidApp::Helper in the same manner as rapidapp.pl, but the new app is generated in a temporary directory and immediately launched using the standard Catalyst test server, all in one swoop.

The generated/temporary files are automatically cleaned up on exit unless the --no-cleanup option is supplied.

You can also specify the location of the temporary directory with the --tmpdir option (defaults to /tmp or whatever is returned by File::Spec->tmpdir). If you combine with --no-cleanup you can easily get the full working Catalyst/RapidApp app which was generated, for later use. For instance, these options will create and leave the generated app files within the current directory:

 --tmpdir . --no-cleanup

A shorthand first argument syntax is also supported. If the first argument looks like a dsn (starts with 'dbi:') then it will be used as the dsn without having to supply --dsn first. Additionally, if the first argument is a path to an existing regular file it is assumed to be an SQLite database file, and the appropriate dsn (i.e. "dbi:SQLite:$ARGV[0]") is used automatically.

rdbic.pl is a wrapper around Plack::App::RapidApp::rDbic which can be used directly in Plack-based setups and provides additional options and functionality not exposed in this script.

See Plack::App::RapidApp::rDbic for more information.

The rdbic.pl script and rDbic Plack App were also featured in the 2014 Catalyst Advent Calendar:

• Day 16 - "Instant database admin tool with RapidApp and rdbic.pl"

• Day 17 - "The Plack::App::RapidApp::rDbic interface to RapidApp"

SEE ALSO

RapidApp, rapidapp.pl, Plack::App::RapidApp::rDbic

SUPPORT

IRC:

    Join #rapidapp on irc.perl.org.

AUTHOR

Henry Van Styn <vanstyn@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by IntelliTree Solutions llc.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.