Class::DBI + mod_perl? "Can't locate object method 'search' ...

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Hi All,

"Plan to throw one away" (see *The Mythical Man-Month* by Brooks), 
indeed: I've just about finished a more-complex
than-I-thought web + database application and then too late thought 
"gosh, nice if there were something like Hibertnate
for Perl." A quick web search led me to Class::DBI, which looks like it 
will eliminate 75% of the code I just wrote, and
good riddance to it since I have to maintain the thing ongoing.

BUT ... I have a small example working as a standalone Perl script but 
can't get it going inside mod_perl. I have a startup.pl
script running successfully:

> use lib qw(/usr/local/apache2/perl);
> use Class::DBI;
> use Class::DBI::Pg;
> use inforce;
> 1;


And the 'inforce' module is just simply:

> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use base qw(Class::DBI::Pg);
>
> __PACKAGE__->set_db(Main => 'dbi:Pg:dbname=etracclass', 'nobody', '');
> __PACKAGE__->set_up_table('inforce');
>
> 1;
>

But I can't get my Apache::ASP page to recognize it with any combination of

    use inforce;

with or without the other classes above in 'startup.pl'. I get
   
    Can't's locate object method "search" via package 'inforce' ...

Obviously this is something simple -- thanks in advance for any guidance 
whatsoever
on this.

        -- 
        Mark McWiggins
425-369-8286 (let ring)