Once the SBT tool is installed, we proceed to create the lift project structure, there are 2 ways to create a Lift Project, the first one is tha we can create a new project by the traditional means using maven.

Install Lift 2.1 in MacOSX Leopard (V) – Install the Simple Build Tool (SBT) in MacOSX Leopard

Install Lift 2.1 in MacOSX Leopard > (4) Create a Lift Project with Maven: The Apache Maven has become a standard, a standard that is already installed in Mac OS X Leopard by default, and there is no need to installed again. It is also possible to update it. Once the maven is installed, we [...]

Install Lift 2.1 in MacOSX Leopard > (3) Install Maven in MacOSX Leopard: As we said before, Lift project uses Apache Maven as its default build system, luckily Maven is already installed on the Mac OS X Leopard computers, and we can check the version using the following command: mvn –version It is will appear [...]

This chapter describes the process of install the Scala Language at Mac OSX Leopard once it has been successfully download it

Download the Scala Language at Mac OS X

If you are a loyal reader of this blog, you know that I am a rather new fan of Lift and Scala. I have recently move to use Lift 2.1 over Scala 2.8.0.  Unfortunately, I cannot work with Lift as much as I want. My story with Lift and Scala is fill with a lot of blank spaces where, due to my job, I have no contact with Lift coding at all. For that reason, I have created these set of Quick and dirty instructions as tutorial where I review tips, tricks to install Scala, Lift Web Framework, Simple Build Tool, Maven, and Eclipse.

The idea is to keep it updated from time to time including my new findings, and novelties as I believe it is going to change at lot in the very next future.

Hi All: I have recently discover Heroku service for building applications. It is extremely useful and extremely easy to use. It is also based in Git a SCM system which is also revolutionazing the version control systems. To install Git, we could use this guide located on the progit or also you can see this [...]

jQuery is today the best js library, prototype is a challenger.The reasons why I think this are beautifully illustrated on the following post. To use jQuery in rails install the following plugin: ruby script/plugin install http://ennerchi.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/jrails Here is a list of existing functions which are available once we replace prototype+scriptacuolous for the jquery. Hopefully, this [...]

Many of you have already heard about JRuby and its Rails implementation called JRuby on Rails, for those who do not I would recommend to read the following articles: JRuby: The power of Java and Ruby This article which clearly explain the basics is about JRuby. This article from Java World gives an overview JRuby [...]