404 Ghost workaround

A little recap:

Here I stated a problem about phantom 404 and  a (wrong) solution to it.
Here I confessed I was working on the issue.
Here It's the work I'm doing with a long and boring description of the problem that I'll not repeat in this blog.

...but probably you don't want to wait until the problem is really closed because you have (as me) a package that you want on CPAN to share it with the world.

Oh yes, the problem! Let me say it with few words:
You have a plugin that modify the request path in a before hook. You want that, when the user write (for example) /prefix/good/path, your plugin change it to /good/path. Obviously the code that will answer to this will be:

get '/good/path' => sub {...}

You don't define anything about /prefix/good/path because the plugin will always change it, so you'll never need to answer with it.
This works! I can swear it calling Wotan on my side. But when you try to test it with dzil test the test you wrote fails.

Long explanation for why this happen, as I said, is here. Little workaround you can use to stop this happening is adding a public directory under the t with just a dummy file. This way fix the problem and make you test suit running flawless!

In the previous episodes of Battlestar Galactica...

I didn't write anything for a lot of time because I was on holiday and (more important) a lot of things happened in the Dancer2 World and I was a bit confused about some of them.

First important news, for me, is that use Dancer2 :sytanx is no more from 0.07. I was a little puzzled about it because, as I wrote here the pure use Dancer2 is a powerful spell that do many things and sometimes it could be more than what you want.
I asked for enlightement (i'm still a barbarian, you know) and Sawyer X himself gave me this answer about it.
So, using use Dancer2 also when you're not creating an app is good.
All I said about apps  and scope is still valid, so we can say farewell to use Dancer2 :syntax (a legacy of Dancer) with no regret.

Second question I'm working about is nasty like a leprechaun with no sense of humor that hate Harry Potter. In this article I talked about phantom 404 that raise instead of the right answer while testing. I thought this issue was solved using TCP::Test. This is not true, there is still a lot of work to do about this fascinating enigma and it's exactly what I'm doing right now. It's an indispensable step to release my Dancer2 plugin (Dancer2::Plugin::Multilang) on CPAN so I'm working hard about it!

Stay tuned!