Just a few notes regarding my solution to this assignment

To Moose or not to Moose

I elected to use Moose instead of traditional Perl OO for 2 reasons:

I think it's great and I'm very comfortable with it
Use of CPAN was encouraged.

That being said I'm also well versed with traditional Perl OO but honestly a little rusty by now because I did not have to use it for such a long time. On a real project I would of course use what the project uses already. But I strongly recommend using Moose (or Mouse, Moo, etc.)

Apologies In Advance

I think I maintained a decent level of documentation but of course the level of documentation that I output on a real project is much higher.
Same goes for unit tests, I write much more of them on real projects :)

Errata

I've modified the tests for the last exercise for 2 reasons: The list of programming languages was updated on wikipedia. The orignal test for anagrams is sensitive to the order in which the anagrams are returned. I'm assuming it's not part of the specification of the problem and hence just normalized the order by sorting.

Configuration

I've added a Makefile to help me make changes to the schema etc. You should run $ make newdb to regenerate the database with my altered schema. before running any tests. Note: The schema is in db/schema.sql while the data itself is in db/data.sql
I'm accustomed to managing my Perl projects with Dist::Zilla but I know that not everyone is a fan of it. In case you're not a dzil user (I'm pretty sure there are a few alternatives to it...) Then here's what you'd need to do

cpanm on the following modules should give you the dzil environment that I've used.

Dist::Zilla
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::AutoPrereqs
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodSyntaxTests
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::Perl::Critic
Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Basic

As for the CPAN modules I've used you can ask dzil to create a list with:

$ dzil listdeps
# dzil listdeps | cpanm # just install the deps with dzil

On my system this outputs dzil listdeps gives in case you want to get these modules manually:

Cwd
Data::Dumper
DBI
Encode
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
File::Slurp
FindBin
HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath
LWP::UserAgent
Math::Prime::TiedArray
Mock::Quick
Moose
MooseX::Singleton
namespace::autoclean
Test::Exception
Test::More

Then the following steps can create a traditional perl distribution. You might have to run (dzil setup) if you've never used dzil before.

$ dzil test
$ dzil build
$ dzil install # optional

Lastly

Cheers. Rudi.

rgrinberg / perl-test