A Quick-start for Scala and Gradle

Thursday, Aug 22, 2013 |

A Quick-start for Scala and Gradle

Jason Lee 2013-08-22

For those interested, here's a quick and simple project to get you started using Gradle and Scala together:

apply plugin: 'scala'

repositories{
    mavenCentral()
    mavenLocal()
}

dependencies{
    compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.5'
    compile "org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.10.1"
    testCompile "junit:junit:4.11"
}

task run(type: JavaExec, dependsOn: classes) {
    main = 'Main'
    classpath sourceSets.main.runtimeClasspath
    classpath configurations.runtime
}

object Main extends App {
  println("Hello, world")
}

You can run the app using the custom task run:

$ gradle run
:compileJava
:compileScala
:processResources
:classes
:run
Hello, world

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 9.79 secs

Remember to add --daemon for faster startup times for your Gradle builds.

Have fun!