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How to explode a war file in buildr

I'm new to buildr, so I might be missing something obvious.

According to this page, it should be fairly simple:

  1. Download explode.rb

  2. At the top of your buildfile, add the following:

    require 'explode.rb'

  3. Define explode task on your web application:

    package(:war).explode :target => "jetty/webapps/myApplication"

  4. Run the task

    buildr myApp:explode

However, but I can't get it to work. If I just go through the steps in that article, I get the following error:

RuntimeError : Don't know how to build task 'myApp:explode'

I tried all sorts of combinations, but nothing worked.

Solution

  • Turns out the instructions were 100% correct. My problem was that myApp was a sub-project, and I needed the fully qualified name when running the task, i.e.:

    buildr myProject:myApp:explode

    I was confused because just running buildr myApp worked fine.