Greetings fellow monks,

I've been working with Class::DBI a little while and enjoy it, for the most part. One thing that really annoys me is writing everything with absolute class names instead of objects. For example, instead of MyClass::DBI->some_method('data'), I would write someting like my $obj = new MyClass::DBI; $obj->some_method('data'). So far, my Googling hasn't returned any bits of sample code like this.

Attempting to code this on my own, I end up with:

package MyClass::DBI;
use base 'Class::DBI::mysql';
sub new {
  my $pkg = shift;
  my $self; { my %hash; $self = bless(\%hash, $pkg); }
  $self->set_db(@_);
  return $self;
}

package MyClass::Item;
use base 'MyClass::DBI';
MyClass::Item->set_up_table('item');

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This doesn't work, but I don't really know why. I get an obscure Ima::DBI error. My little non-database brain can't figure this out. Is this possible to do? Anyone have some basic sample code they could share with me? Thanks.