rebar

rebar 3.0 is an Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and test Erlang applications, port drivers and releases.

rebar is a self-contained Erlang script, so it's easy to distribute or even embed directly in a project. Where possible, rebar uses standard Erlang/OTP conventions for project structures, thus minimizing the amount of build configuration work. rebar also provides dependency management, enabling application writers to easily re-use common libraries from a variety of locations (git, hg, etc).

3.0 Pre-Alpha

This is an experimental branch, considered to be pre-alpha, and still very unstable. Use at your own risk, and expect no support. See the related announcement.

Compatibility with rebar 2.0 has been broken, and features removed to limit scope.

Commands

Command	Description
as	Higher-order provider to run multiple tasks in sequence as certain profiles
compile	Build project
clean	Remove project apps beam files
ct	Run Common Test suites
do	Higher-order provider to run multiple tasks in sequence
dialyzer	Run the Dialyzer analyzer on the project
eunit	Run eunit tests
help	Print help for rebar or task
new	Create new rebar project from templates
pkgs	List available packages
release	Build release of project
shell	Run shell with project apps in path
tar	Package release into tarball
update	Update package index
upgrade	Fetch latest version of dep
version	Print current version of Erlang/OTP and rebar
xref	Run cross reference analysis on the project

Commands still to do

Command	Description
escriptize	Generate escript of project

Changes

• Fetches and builds deps if missing when running any command that relies on them
• Automatically recognizes apps and lib directory structure
• Relx for releases

Gone

• Reltool integeration

Providers

Providers are the modules that do the work to fulfill a user's command.

Example:

-module(rebar_prv_something).

-behaviour(rebar_provider).

-export([init/1,
         do/1]).

-define(PROVIDER, something).
-define(DEPS, []).

%% ===================================================================
%% Public API
%% ===================================================================

-spec init(rebar_state:state()) -> {ok, rebar_state:state()}.
init(State) ->
    State1 = rebar_state:add_provider(State, rebar_provider:create([{name, ?PROVIDER},
                                                                    {module, ?MODULE},
                                                                    {bare, false},
                                                                    {deps, ?DEPS},
                                                                    {example, "rebar dummy"},
                                                                    {short_desc, "dummy plugin."},
                                                                    {desc, ""},
                                                                    {opts, []}])),
    {ok, State1}.

-spec do(rebar_state:state()) -> {ok, rebar_state:state()}.
do(State) ->
    %% Do something
    {ok, State}.

Building

Recommended installation of Erlang/OTP is binary packages from Erlang Solutions. For source it is recommended you use erln8 or kerl.

Dependencies

To build rebar you will need a working installation of Erlang R15 (or later).

Should you want to clone the rebar repository, you will also require git.

Downloading

You can download a pre-built binary version of rebar3 based on the last commit from:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/rebar3/rebar3

Building rebar

$ git clone https://github.com/rebar/rebar3
$ cd rebar
$ ./bootstrap/bootstrap
==> rebar (compile)
Congratulations! You now have a self-contained script called "rebar" in
your current working directory. Place this script anywhere in your path
and you can use rebar to build OTP-compliant apps.

Contributing to rebar

Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.

Community and Resources

In case of problems that cannot be solved through documentation or examples, you may want to try to contact members of the community for help. The community is also where you want to go for questions about how to extend rebar, fill in bug reports, and so on.

The main place to go for questions is the rebar mailing list. If you need quick feedback, you can try the #rebar channel on irc.freenode.net. Be sure to check the wiki first, just to be sure you're not asking about things with well known answers.

For bug reports, roadmaps, and issues, visit the github issues page.

General rebar community resources and links:

• Rebar Mailing List
• #rebar on irc.freenode.net
• wiki
• issues