Documentation

1. 01 VRaptor3 - One minute guide
2. 02 VRaptor3 - 10 minute guide
3. 03 Resources-Rest
4. 04 Components
5. 05 Converters
6. 06 Interceptors
7. 07 Validation
8. 08 View and Ajax
9. 09 Dependency injection
10. 10 Download and Upload
11. 11 Utility components
12. 12 Overriding Vraptor's behavior and conventions
13. 13 Spring, Joda Time and Hibernate
14. 14 Google App Engine
15. 15 Testing components and controllers
16. 16 Scala
17. 17 Optimizations
18. 18 VRaptor Scaffold
19. 19 Exception handling
20. 20 How to contribute to VRaptor
21. 21 Changelog
22. 22 Migrating from VRaptor2 to VRaptor3

18VRaptor Scaffold

VRaptor scaffold extension to make it easier configuring new projects and plugins.

Installation

Ensure you have installed ruby and rubygems. You can easily find more information how to do this in the follow address http://www.ruby-lang.org/pt/downloads. After installed ruby stuffs open your terminal and run

gem install vraptor-scaffold

Getting started

Open your terminal again and run

vraptor new onlinestore

This command will create all configurations, after that go into onlinestore folder and run

ant jetty.run

open your browser in the follow address http://localhost:8080 and you should see It works!. Now lets create a CRUD to online store, to do that just run

vraptor scaffold product name:string value:double

and run server

ant jetty.run

Go http://localhost:8080/products

Package

The root default folder is app to change that you have the fallow command

vraptor new onlinestore --package=br.com.caelum

You can also change the model, controller and repository packages:

vraptor new onlinestore --package=br.com.caelum -m modelo -c controlador -r repositorio

Build: Maven, Gradle or Ivy

The default build tool is ant with ivy to deal with dependencies, to change your build tool, just create your application with:

# for maven
vraptor new onlinestore --build-tool=mvn

# for gradle
vraptor new onlinestore --build-tool=gradle

When using gradle, use

gradle jettyRun

to run the application.

ORM: JPA or Hibernate, connection pool

A new project already comes with the connection pool configured and in place. Besides that, one can choose between JPA (EntityManager, default), or Hibernate (Session), when creating your project:

vraptor new onlinestore -o=jpa
vraptor new onlinestore -o=hibernate

Freemarker

The default template engine is jsp, to change that create your application with

vraptor new onlinestore --template-engine=ftl

Eclipse

If you choose maven, run:

mvn eclipse:eclipse

to create eclipse files. If you are using ant eclipse files are generated with the application to skip them run

vraptor new onlinestore --skip-eclipse

Supported attributes type

The supported attributes type are: boolean, double, float, short, integer, long, string, text, date and references.

Plugins

Vraptor plugin can be installed by issuing a

vraptor plugin simple-email -v 1.0.0

You can find a list of available plugins at https://github.com/caelum/vraptor-contrib

jQuery

The jQuery version is always the latest available, you can choose older version with:

vraptor new onlinestore -j 1.4.4

Heroku

Now you can deploy any kind of Java application on Heroku with a simple

git push heroku master

And vraptor-scaffold take care with all the stuff you need to getting started with Heroku. To create an application that uses the heroku workflow just run:

vraptor new onlinestore --heroku

After that you need to follow the Heroku steps to get done. You can find more information here http://www.heroku.com/java

Help command

To get hold of all available commands execute

vraptor -h

To get more information on a command usage, use, for example:

vraptor new -h
vraptor scaffold -h
vraptor plugin -h

Contributing

This project is being developed in ruby and the source is hosted in https://github.com/caelum/vraptor-scaffold. Feel free to fork and create your path or features, dont forget the tests.