What's new on CPAN July 2014

Aug 1, 2014 by David Farrell

Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure.

APIs

• AntTweakBar provides Perl bindings for the GUI library
• Use PayPoint’s merchant engine with Business::PayPoint::MCPE
• Device::PCDuino is a hardware interface for the pcDuino, by Timm Murray author of UAV::Pilot
• HBase::JSONRest is a RESTful interface to Apache HBase
• Net::Amazon::Utils provides helper utils for AWS
• Access Desk.com’s API with WWW::Desk

Apps

• Test GnuPG email sign/encrypt with App::Eduard
• App::plackbench is a benchmarking tool for Plack applications
• Ensure that you only run a command once with App::single

Data

• Bio::Lite is a lightweight implementation of useful bio Perl functions
• Convert email addresses into the DNS rname format and vice versa using DNS::RName::Converter
• Hash::Ordered provides a simple implementation of an ordered hash with robust performance. Author David Golden presented the module and comparison benchmarks recently at NY.pm (slides)
• Generate sets of English names with Mock::Person::EN
• Pod::Markdown::Github converts POD to Github-sepcific markdown

Development & System Administration

• Benchmark::Report::GitHub generates benchmark reports from Travis-CI and publishes them on GitHub wiki
• Augment your DBIx::Class schema objects with additional logic using DBIx::Class::Wrapper
• Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git::Contributors pulls all of the author names from your Git commit history and adds them to your module’s metadata
• Looking for a drop-in replacement for Getop::Long with tab completion? Check out Getopt::Long::Complete
• JCONF is a JSON format optimized for configuration files. JCONF::Writer produces JCONF files from Perl data structures
• Enable OAuth2 support in command line applications with OAuth::Cmdline
• Pegex::Forth is a Forth parser and interpreter built on Pegex
• Refine is a clever module that let’s you add methods to objects (not classes) at runtime
• Use Type::Tiny::XS for an even faster Type::Tiny

Fun

• Map::Tube::London will tell you the shortest route between two stations on the London Underground
• Text::Pangram identifies strings which are pangrams
• Access your Zombies Run! stats using WebService::ZombiesRun

Mojolicious

• Mojo::UserAgent::UnixSocket enables Mojo::UserAgent to interact with sockets
• Use HTML::Template::Pro templates in your application with Mojolicious::Plugin::HTMLTemplateProRenderer
• Support RESTful operations with Mojolicious::Plugin::REST
• Log webpage user events with Mojolicious::Plugin::Surveil

Testing

• Test::Subtests is interesting: it wraps Test::More tests into subtests and can allow some of them to fail
• Write RSpec - like tests for Rex with Rex::Test::Spec
• Test::Deep::DateTime::RFC3339 tests that RFC3339 timestamps are within a certain tolerance
• Test::Docker::MySQL launches MySQL docker containers

Web

• Reuse your Kelp routes with KelpX::AppBuilder (Kelp is a Plack based web micro-framework)
• Plack::App::CGIBin::Streaming enables CGI applcaitions to use the Palck streaming protocol
• Tie variables to DuckDuckGo search using Tie::DuckDuckGo