What are best practices for deploying a Catalyst application to a production server?

Question

What is a good way to deploy Catalyst applications to a production server? Currently I simply have a FastCGI dispatch script in the root of the repository and when I want to upd

Answer 1

To deal with the unsatisfied dependencies issue, I use a script that runs svn export for the entire app-tree to a separate directory, sets the environment appropriately and then executes:

perl -MMyApp -e '{print "OK"}'
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
    echo "MyApp failed compile, not installing."
    exit 1
fi

That's quite sufficient to ensure any modules installed in dev are available before recycling Apache and/or FastCGI. Once it succeeds the exported code is moved to its final location.