Re: What is the proper data structure for CAP::DBH?

[tangent]

You mention that you are able to create a connection using straight DBI. In the docs for CGI::Application::Plugin::DBH it has:

You can either pass in an existing DBI database handle, or provide the usual parameters used for DBI->connect()

If you haven't tried this already, pass in an existing handle and see if it works - will help narrow the problem.

my $dbh = DBI->connect( ... );
if (not $dbh) {
    die "Could not connect to DB: ", $DBI::errstr;
}
$self->dbh_config($dbh);

[bradcathey]

I didn't do this exactly, but it prompted me to abstract the code and strip away everything but the salient stuff and I found the error which was simply a bad path to a use lib. Embarrassed but I learned two lessons: abstract the issue, and learn all about sprintf. Thanks all for your help.