Question

I want to setup IntelliJ IDEA as my IDE for a Play2 application. According to the documentation there should be an idea command that comes with the play framework. See here http://www.playframework.org/documentation/2.0.3/IDE. I just downloaded, unzipped and setup the play framework and even created a new application but the idea command seems to be missing.

Where is this command? If it’s not going to be available then I could use some tips on setting up the environment manually.

I already tried Creating an new project and importing the sources but IntelliJ did not detect any frameworks.

Answer 1

Maybe you forgot to switch to the application folder.

not working:

$ play new my-app 
$ play idea

output:

play! 2.0.3, http://www.playframework.org
This is not a play application!

correct:

$ play new my-app
$ cd my-app
$ play idea

If that does not work, please show what you have typed and what is the output.

IntelliJ IDEA 11 has no native support for play 2.