ScalaTest is a decent library for testing scala code. It integrates with ScalaCheck for "property based testing". In this type of testing, you specify properties of a class or method, and the library generates test cases. I haven't done much property based testing, and it sounds interesting, so I ...

In a project I'm working on, I wanted to copy a fat jar to a remote machine for testing.

The sbt-assembly plugin is handy for making a fat jar, but I didn't find any convenient plugins for just copying the jar somewhere. (SBT's built-in publish mechanism is ...

As I slowly learn my way around the Scala APIs, I'm enjoying the expressiveness that is possible. You can do a lot with just a little bit of code.

Operating on Files

For example, I needed a way to perform an operation on every file in a directory tree ...

I'm from a C background with a hefty dose of Python, mostly on linux systems.

My preferred mode of delivering software is as a single executable file. I hate having to explain to users that they have to install a half-dozen support libraries. (This is less painful on modern ...

Things we need to be able to use Scala on Debian (everything below will likely work on Ubuntu as well):

• Scala itself, of course. apt-get install scala will pull in a bunch of packages -- all the java stuff, etc. However, note that sbt will happily pull down whatever version of ...