config.yml

# This is the main configuration file of your Dancer app
# env-related settings should go to environments/$env.yml
# all the settings in this file will be loaded at Dancer's startup.

# Your application's name
appname: "Acme::Test::Dancer::Plugin::Database"

# The default layout to use for your application (located in
# views/layouts/main.tt)
layout: "main"

# when the charset is set to UTF-8 Dancer will handle for you
# all the magic of encoding and decoding. You should not care
# about unicode within your app when this setting is set (recommended).
charset: "UTF-8"

# template engine
# simple: default and very basic template engine
# template_toolkit: TT

template: "simple"

# template: "template_toolkit"
# engines:
#   template_toolkit:
#     encoding:  'utf8'
#     start_tag: '[%'
#     end_tag:   '%]'


plugins:
    Database:
        connections:
            foo:
                driver: SQLite
                dbname: 'test.sdb'

lib_Acme_Test_Dancer_Plugin_Database.pm

package Acme::Test::Dancer::Plugin::Database;
use Dancer ':syntax';
use Dancer::Plugin::Database;

our $VERSION = '0.1';

get '/' => sub {
    template 'index';
    my $conn = database('foo');
    my $also_conn = database('foo');
};

true;