| The project is written in Scala and I'm currently using Simple Build Tool (SBT) to build/test things. |
| My goal has been two-fold - redesign forrest and learn functional programming/message-passing |
| concurrency/scala/etc. As such, it's likely not idiomatic Scala but will hopefully be so as I learn. |
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| sbt is a ridiculously simple tool that can be found here: |
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| http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/wiki/Setup |
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| Following those directions, I basically have ~/bin directory where I added |
| a new script 'sbt' with the following content: |
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| #!/bin/sh |
| java -Xmx512M -jar `dirname $0`/sbt-launch-0.7.2.jar "$@" |
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| Then, added that to my path, obviously with the jar file in the same directory. |
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| In the root project directory (hint: this directory) type 'sbt' which will get |
| you in the sbt interactive shell. Key tasks are 'compile' and 'run' - mostly, you'll |
| just type 'run' at the prompt, which will recompile if necessary and launch |
| the f9 interactive shell. |
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| Everything is really rudimentary at this point - I'm trying to carve out some basics |
| first with a focus on simplicity for the user, then, once happy with that, we can build |
| in functionality. So far, once in the f9 shell, you can: |
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| init - to initialize project |
| build - to transform sources and build static files in the output dir. (well, eventually) |
| run - to run a webapp at 8080 |
| stop - to stop the webapp at 8080 |
| clean - to clean the output dir |
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| There aren't currently any dependencies between tasks, so you need to, for example, make sure |
| you build before you run. |
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| To keep things simple in development, I've been just creating the f9 project right in the same directory. So, |
| I'll do something like: |
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| sbt |
| > run |
| f9> project doesn't exist, create? (y) |
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| I then copy the {forrest-seed-sample}/../xdocs/* into ./sources/docs |
