cyrille-leclerc / play2-clickstack

A native runtime for Play 2 on CloudBees

Play 2 ClickStack

Creating an app and database

For this to work, you will need to have the CloudBees SDK installed. Here, we simply create a new application and database on CloudBees.

bees app:create APP_NAME
bees db:create DB_NAME
bees app:bind -a APP_NAME -db DB_NAME -as MYDB

Where MYDB is the name of your database alias. This name will be used for the System Properties exposed to the application with the database configuration details.

(if you don't want a DB, skip the last 2 lines, of course!)

Preparing your play 2 project

If you are using CloudBees DBs, you will need to change your database configuration in conf/application.conf to the following (the ALIAS part will always be upper case, and refers to the ALIAS specified with bees app:bind, as described above)

db.default.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
db.default.url="jdbc:"${DATABASE_URL_MYDB}
db.default.user=${DATABASE_USERNAME_MYDB}
db.default.password=${DATABASE_PASSWORD_MYDB}

The quotes must cover "jdbc:" and not the variable substitution part (Or otherwise it won't be substituted.)

We also need to get the MySQL driver. To do this, we change our appDependencies in project/Build.scala to:

val appDependencies = Seq(
	"mysql" % "mysql-connector-java" % "5.1.21"
// And then your other dependencies, if you have any...
)

Building and deploying your Play 2 application

You're almost done! Now, in your Play 2 project directory, execute the following:

play clean dist
bees app:deploy -t play2 -a APP_NAME dist/*.zip

And your app is now running on the cloud!