Looking at the class loader, it seems that it could be improved and generalized. I found as I was building some other Jifty related tools, particularly a generic Comment plugin and a web platform we're beginning to plan for 2008 Q3 for work, I needed to automatically generate code based upon simple templates. This work looks very similar to what is already provided in Jifty::ClassLoader. Being iced in this weekend, I toyed with the idea and came up with a new project: Class::AutoGenerate. I've placed it on my personal SVN repository here if you want to check it out.
<br><br><a href="http://svn.contentment.org/svn/trunk/Class-AutoGenerate/">http://svn.contentment.org/svn/trunk/Class-AutoGenerate/</a><br><br>I built the first test modeled after a replicate of Jifty::ClassLoader:<br><br>
<a href="http://svn.contentment.org/svn/trunk/Class-AutoGenerate/t/05-jifty-classloader.t">http://svn.contentment.org/svn/trunk/Class-AutoGenerate/t/05-jifty-classloader.t</a><br><br>It was inspired by both Jifty::ClassLoader and Jifty::Dispatcher. I'm not sure it's the right way to reimplement Jifty::ClassLoader or not, but it's an idea. I plan to use it for my own projects at this point if nothing else and thought I'd share it as another declarative/jifty-ish tool that will becoming to a CPAN mirror near you (once I finish cleaning it up).
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Andrew<br>