Setting up IntelliJ IDEA IDE to work with a Play2 application?

Question

I want to setup IntelliJ IDEA as my IDE for a Play2 application. According to the documentation there should be an idea command that comes with the play framework. See here http://www.playframework.org/documentation/2.0.3/IDE. I just downloaded, unzipped and setup the play framework and even created a new application but the idea command seems to be missing.

Where is this command? If it's not going to be available then I could use some tips on setting up the environment manually.

I already tried Creating an new project and importing the sources but IntelliJ did not detect any frameworks.

Answer 1

Maybe you forgot to switch to the application folder.

not working:

$ play new my-app 
$ play idea

output:

play! 2.0.3, http://www.playframework.org
This is not a play application!

correct:

$ play new my-app
$ cd my-app
$ play idea

If that does not work, please show what you have typed and what is the output.

IntelliJ IDEA 11 has no native support for play 2.

Answer 2

I follow the steps

1. play new myproject
2. cd myproject
3. play idea

And then following the intellij documentation I tried to import the play module, didnt work

But checking the Play wiki I realize that instead of importing the module into an existing project of iltellij I must open the project and everithing is already in place.

Answer 3

For Play 2.0, I ran into issues with the vanilla play idea command. Most, if not all associated libraries were malformed in the .iml file.

As a workaround, I used play eclipsify and used Idea's 'Import from External Source' to create a proper idea project with all the dependencies. Worked like a charm.

Answer 4

You can also try using:

play idea with-sources=yes

Works for me.