Adding external config file

myapp.conf.example

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+  foo => 'bar',
+  banana => 'monkey',
+# Database connection details
+  dsn => "dbi:SQLite:dbname=foodloop.db",
+};

senddatatodb.pl

@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ use Data::UUID;
 
 # connect to database
 use DBI;
-my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=foodloop.db") or die "Could not connect";
+my $config = plugin Config => {file => 'myapp.conf'};
+
+use Devel::Dwarn; Dwarn $config;
+
+my $dbh = DBI->connect($config->{dsn}) or die "Could not connect";
 
 # shortcut for use in template
 helper db => sub { $dbh };