Sample Play! Deb Packaging Snapshot

This repo is a sample Play! 2.1 project that packages itself according to Coursera's typical best practices. For an overview, please see: Deploying Play! Apps. To package this Play! app, simply run deb from the Play! interactive console. You will find the generated deb inside the target folder.

Note: Within Coursera, packaging, helpers and more are shared between projects using the "PlayCour" plugin. e.g. A typical project/plugins.sbt file would have the following line appended:

// Include the playcour tooling
addSbtPlugin("org.coursera.playcour" % "sbt-plugin" % "2.11.0")

Instead in this project, a subset of the plugin is copied directly into the project folder. The settings are found in both Build.scala and DebHelpers.scala.

Note: the SBT Native Packager relies on tools such as fakeroot to be installed. If you see an error that looks like:

[error] (debian:package-bin) java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "fakeroot" (in directory "/Users/saeta/src/personal/play-deb-packaging/target/coursera-play-deb-packaging-1.0.0"): error=2, No such file or directory
[error] Total time: 2 s, completed Aug 27, 2013 1:45:52 PM
[play-deb-packaging] $

you probably don't have the appropriate tools installed. Consider running this command inside an Ubuntu-based machine. If you are having trouble, let me know!

What is a snapshot?

A "snapshot" is a an export of a part of our codebase at a particular point in time. It is not necessarily complete, nor is it guaranteed to be runnable. It is also liable to be out of date with our current codebase, and it is possible that we will not update the snapshot in the future. To read more about why we are sharing this as a snapshot, please read this blog post.