Most web apps will either have a top-level def'd var that points to the
database or they'll use a middleware to chain it into the request map.
Which you do depends on your DB library.
On Monday, September 23, 2013 1:23:50 PM UTC-7, Brian Craft wrote:
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> My question is more about how to pass som
My question is more about how to pass something to the app without sticking
it in a global. This might be a noir question. Handlers are called without
any passed context. I'm not sure if that's peculiar to noir, or something
inherited from ring. So, the only way I know to get context to the app
Take a look at
http://clojure-doc.org/articles/ecosystem/java_jdbc/connection_pooling.html
You would want to set up a connection pool and pass that into your app
as part of its context.
Does that help?
Sean
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Brian Craft wrote:
> Trying to get a small app off t
Even in that case you have to get the db info to the handlers somehow. A
lot of demo code I see just hard-codes the db stuff, which is not useful.
I can make it work via middleware, like
(partial db db-middleware)
then add db-middleware to ring before starting jetty.
I'm not sure if this is a
Caveat: I am experienced with Clojure, but a newbie at web development in
*any* language. I have recently begun going through the beta version of
the book "Web Development with Clojure"
http://pragprog.com/book/dswdcloj/web-development-with-clojure
Hopefully others with more web dev experien
Trying to get a small app off the ground with noir/jdbc/jetty (jdbc 0.2.2,
I think), I'm getting a "No valid DB connection selected" error.
I suspect this is because I start it something like
(with-connection mydb
(server/start))
which creates a thread-local binding of *db* in jdbc, then star
