How to explode a war file in buildr

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.