What's new on CPAN - October 2014

Nov 7, 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

• WebService::HackerNews provides an interface to HackerNews, woohoo!
• Like music album cover art? WWW::Search::Coveralia provides a search API for Coveralia.com

Apps

• Games::Dukedom implements the land management game in the terminal
• Convert anything to anything in the cloud using App::cloudconvert
• App::DistSync is a file synchronization app

Async & Concurrency

• Test::Async::HTTP is a mock class for testing the asynchronous user agent
• Lock::Socket is a clever module that provides process locking via sockets

Data

• Slurp with confidence using File::Slurper
• It has a long title but it’s worth it: DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::Serializer::Sereal inflates / deflates into DBIx columns using the super-fast Sereal!
• Couchbase is a new Perl client for the NoSQL database, implemented in XS
• Geo::Address::Formatter formats addresses from all over the World.

Config & DevOps

• FFI::TinyCC provides an interface to the super-fast (compile time) TinyCC compiler
• Another useful FFI library, FFI::CheckLib will check that a C library is available for FFI to use

Math, Science & Language

• Generate random, normally distributed numbers with Math::Random::Normal::Leva
• Related, Rand::Urandomwill generate better pseudo random numbers
• Do efficient fuzzy matching with Tree::BK
• Rstats exports R functions, an interesting alternative to Statistics::R. Next step, Inline::R!

Object Oriented

• MooseX::Role::Hashable enables Moose object to be convertible into hashes!
• Get some useful extra type constraint methods from MooseX::Types::MoreUtils

Testing & Exceptions

• Devel::DidYouMean intercepts failed subroutine calls and suggests useful alternatives (disclaimer - I am the module author.)
• Conveniently test that numbers are within tolerance using Test::Deep::NumberTolerant

Web

• Per the documention: Mojo::Pg “makes PostgreSQL a lot of fun to use with the Mojolicious”. Check it out!
• Want to generate a sitemap for a web app? Check out WWW::Sitemap::Simple
• Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::OAuth makes is easy to incorporate open auth into a Dancer2 web app.

Help us make “What’s new on CPAN” better! Add your suggestions to the r/perl post for this article.

Updates: additional web modules added to article 2014-11-08.