Fatvat

Compojure is a web-framework for Clojure.

Grab the latest source from Git and build with Ant.

  git clone git://github.com/weavejester/compojure.git
  cd compojure
  ant

Now you've got to add Compojure into your classpath. I use Emacs and Slime so I edited my .emacs file based on some suggestions from IRC and got (in addition to the usual)

(swank-clojure-config
 (setq swank-clojure-jar-path (concat clj-root "clojure/trunk/clojure.jar")))
 (setq swank-clojure-extra-classpaths (directory-files "~/lisp/clj/" t ".jar$"))

When ~/lisp/clj contains all my JARs (well symlinks anyway).

After this, I wasted (well wasted probably isn't true, I got some new knowledge) precious minutes of my life wondering why I couldn't get anything working, but on the plus side I found some functions that helped:

  user> (all-ns)
  ;; big list of name spaces, check that you've got Compojure on here!

  user> (System/getProperty "java.class.path")
  ;; big class path list, make sure you have Compojure + all the dependent JARs

Then, I got a bit lost because I'd mismatched versions of compojure.jar and clojure.ar! Rather than using the version of Clojure that came with Compojure, I was using the head revision - bad idea! Use a consistent set of JARs that come from the git repository.

And now I'm able to compile the examples from the Wikibook and all is well.

I also decided to finally by the Programming Clojure book, now all I need is a decent e-book reader!

Labels: clojure