Outdated sbt Tutorials at Twitter's Scala School

I am currently learning Scala through Twitter’s Scala school, and I found that “Adding Dependencies”, “Packaging and Publishing” and “Adding Tasks” tutorials at Simple Build Tool section are outdated. And in this short tutorial, I’ll share how I perform the outdated tutorials using sbt 0.13.0.

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Adding Dependencies

Instead of creating a .scala file in project/build path, we can easily use the build.sbt file to add the required dependencies. Here is the snippet that should be added to build.sbt:

libraryDependencies ++= Seq( "org.scala-tools.testing" % "specs_2.10" % "1.6.+" % "test", "org.codehaus.jackson" % "jackson-core-asl" % "1.9.+" )

Packaging and Publishing

To publish into your local maven repository, instead of using Twitter’s standard-project as shown in the tutorial, use this following code snippet in your build.sbt file:

publishTo := Some(Resolver.file("file", new File(Path.userHome.absolutePath+"/.m2/repository")))

Then follow the next step which is to run publish action in your sbt (i.e. type sbt in your project directory to load your configuration, and then type publish).

For further information about publishing in sbt, refer to this documentation: http://www.scala-sbt.org/release/docs/Detailed-Topics/Publishing.html

Adding Tasks

Use taskKey to define a task key and use it in your task as shown below (don’t forget to put a blank line between time!):

lazy val print = taskKey[Unit]("Print test message")

print := streams.value.log.info("a test message")

Then, to test it, type print in your sbt. The output from your sbt should be something like this:

> print [info] a test action [success] Total time: 0 s, completed Oct 13, 2013 6:54:18 PM

Reference for adding new tasks: http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13.0/docs/Getting-Started/Custom-Settings.html

Ping me if you know more awesome ways to perform the outdated tutorials! Ciaoooo!!