Hi, and welcome to Lift! On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:46 AM, DFectuoso<santiago1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! I'm starting to use lift/scala(I don't know either) and already I > have a couple of (very very basic) questions. > I'm reading "The definitive guide to lift" and even tho it's been > enough to actually understand some of the key elements of a lift > application I am having some problems understanding some of the code > and how you people work with Lift. > > 1.- What tools do you use to program, debug and run the website? At > this moment I'm using text mate to program and the terminal to run > yetti; It's very slow to run yetti every time and its hard to > understand the errors so i tried eclipse but I had trouble installing > the maven plug-in so... what is your toolbox?
I tend to like Netbeans 6.7 (currently in rc3 status) with the Scala plugin. Others use Eclipse, IDEA, Vim, and Emacs with varying degrees of success. I'm not familiar with yetti (jetty?) but a lot of folks in the Lift community use JavaRebel speed things up and avoid container restarts. I run my app on Glassfish (with JavaRebel in development), but any servlet container will work and jetty is probably be the best for getting started. > 2.- What is _ and Full in different places? > I see that in a binding "name" -> SHtml.text(name, name = _) or when > checking for cases there's a case for Full(_) and for _ ; what does _ > means and what does Full mean; and whats the difference between Full > (_) and _. _ is the great wildcard in Scala. In the binding example, "name = _" is equivalent to the anonymous function (s: String) => name = s. A case matching on Full(_) will match any Full box, ignoring the type of its contents. A case matching on _ will match any value not matched by previous clauses. > 3.-Reading about the flow from request to response; i cant avoid to > ask: How many times does the Boot(or bootloader) run? Once when i run > the app(or web server; yetti in my case) or once every time there's a > request? Boot is run on startup, and not re-run subsequently. This can cause some trickiness when using JavaRebel; you will need to restart the application if you make changes to Boot. Kris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
