Play 2 + Scala + Slick + more sample application

In my attempts to learn the Play Framework I decided to build my own sandbox project called Resource Vault. If you are curious about what I did you can download the project and run it in your local environment.

Resource Vault core design choices 

• Play for Scala - Scala API for Play application developers
• Slick - Modern database query and access library for Scala
• Bootstrap - Mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development. Includes 200 glyphs in font format from the Glyphicon Halflings set
• Webjars - WebJars are client-side web libraries (e.g. jQuery & Bootstrap) packaged into JAR files
• Specs2 - Library for writing Acceptance and Unit tests

Resource Vault application overview

Resource Vault is a virtual vault for referencing resources, a central location to bookmark important links and resources. A user can add any number of resources and group them accordingly using basic CRUD actions. Below is a screen shot of what the home page looks like:

Running the application

In order to get Resource Vault running in your local environment you can try the following steps:

• Download and install Java (JDK 6 or later) if you haven’t done so already
• Download the Play Framework (I used 2.2.1): 
• http://www.playframework.com/download
• Follow the instructions on installing Play:
• http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.x/Installing
• Download the Resource Vault project:
• https://rmahony-stable.googlecode.com/archive/ca291e890407889154c42d0f05f1872b0b6b11fa.zip
• Extract the archive into a folder on your computer. 
• Open a command prompt / terminal and change to the resource vault home folder
• Run the application:
• play run

I won’t go into any other detail describing every file so if you want to dig deeper please have a look at the code.

I am going to continue building adding to this project so that I can grow and improve my knowledge of Play and Scala and all the rest that comes with it. I will look at adding more useful unit specifications and acceptance specifications with Specs2 as well as FluentLenium. I want to add authentication and authorisation and then deploy and run the application on Heroku. I have a number of other use cases in mind and hopefully I can get time to cover most of them.

Please feel free to comment and give suggestions on areas where you think I could have done things in a different way.