recurser

Obviously we’re going to need scala before we can do anything useful; the easiest way to install it is via macports . We’re also going to need maven.

> sudo port install scala  
> sudo port install maven2

Scala seems to have moved their repository to github , and the old google code repository no longer works. Assuming you have git installed (if not, there’s an OS X installer here ) :

> mkdir -p Documents/code/scala
> cd Documents/code/scala
> git clone git://github.com/dpp/liftweb.git
> cd liftweb
>  mvn clean:clean install

The mvn install may take quite a while.

At this point i got an error :

Required goal not found: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:jar in org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:1.0-alpha-7

… which i think might have been because Little Snitch blocked a request or something… I ran mvn clean:clean install again and after a few complaints from Little Snitch, success :

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 7 minutes 50 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Aug 18 03:47:19 JST 2009
[INFO] Final Memory: 50M/63M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
mvn clean:clean install  360.40s user 51.08s system 87% cpu 7:50.98 total

Next, it’s time to create our new project :

> cd ..
> mvn archetype:create -U  \
 -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb                             \
 -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-basic                 \
 -DarchetypeVersion=1.0                            \
 -DremoteRepositories=http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases  \
 -DgroupId=net.liftweb.hello -DartifactId=hello-lift

This should create a hello-lift folder with your new application in it. There are several archetypes available – this example uses lift-archetype-basic, which provides basic database support and a basic stylesheet. To run it :

> cd hello-lift/
> mvn install jetty:run

… and point your browser at http://localhost:8080/ , and you should be in business!