Re: How do you use Template Toolkit with Dancer2?

[Corion]

The Template::Toolkit templates have a different syntax than the default Dancer templating system. You will have to rewrite the existing templates to use TT syntax ([% ... %]) or switch Template::Toolkit to use <% ... %> as syntax and then look at where the Dancer template system differs from TT.

Update: Just as I've posted this, I also read the same thing in Dancer::Template::TemplateToolkit. It seems you can even switch to <% ... %> syntax from within the config:

    template: template_toolkit
    engines:
        template_toolkit:
            start_tag: '[%'
            stop_tag: '%]'

Update 2: This is the documentation for Dancer, not Dancer2... For Dancer2, it's the other way around (Dancer2::Template::TemplateToolkit) :

  engines:
    template:
      template_toolkit:
        start_tag: '<%'
        end_tag:   '%>'

[v3ritas]

Thanks!

Also, I discovered I had turned on a different piece of config as well: the YAML session engine block at the bottom of the config.yml file.

It was that session engine block which was breaking things. As soon as I turned that off, the page worked again.