Question

I’m using playframework 2.1-RC2. First of all I’ve seen all the similar questions, so I followed the common instruction of separating application.conf file per environment. So I have application.test.conf and I run tests this way:

play -Dconfig.file=./conf/application.test.conf "test"

I tried different combinations, like

play -Dconfig.file=./conf/application.test.conf ~test

or

play -Dconfig.file=conf/application.test.conf ~test

Still no luck, it just does not get picked, default one (application.conf) is instead.

From the other side, if I do

play -Dconfig.file=./conf/application.dev.conf "run"

then application picks the right config.

So how can I specify the test configuration file?

Answer 1

I found the most robust way to specifiy this in a cross-platform compatible manner is to include it directly in the Build.scala:

val main = play.Project(appName, appVersion, appDependencies).settings(
    javaOptions in Test += "-Dconfig.file=conf/test.conf",
    ...
)

Bonus: configure once and forget 😉