Thanks for the script. I changed it a bit. Here's my version.
(Hopefully I didn't introduce a bug.)
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# a simple module initializer using TemplateToolkit
# original source: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=649856
# - code rewritten a bit
# - use Path::Class instead of File::Spec
# - renamed 'Foo.pm' template file to Module.pm
use Cwd;
use Path::Class qw(file);
my $template_dir = "~/.templates/modules/";
my $module = $ARGV[0] || prompt( "Module name> " );
(my $dist = $module) =~ s/::/-/g; # Foo::Bar::Baz -> Foo-Bar-Baz
(my $base = $module) =~ s/.*:://; # Foo::Bar::Baz -> Baz
my $file = $base . ".pm"; # Baz -> Baz.pm
my $cwd = file(cwd(), $dist);
# must contain ttree (provided through Template Toolkit)
$ENV{PATH} = '/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin';
my @command = (
'ttree',
"-s $template_dir",
"-d $cwd",
"-define module='$module'",
"-define module_file='$file'",
"-define module_dist='$dist'",
);
system join " ", @command;
chdir $dist;
rename file('lib', 'Module.pm'), file('lib', $file);
sub prompt {
print join "\n", @_;
print "> ";
my $line = <STDIN>;
chomp $line;
$line;
}