load a new dependency in slime?

Question

I am using emacs and swank-clojure. How do I resolve the below scenario -

1. I have added a new dependency to project.clj.
2. I run lein deps in a shell to get the new dep.
3. I have an existing slime session that is open and want to use a function from the new dep.

How do I get the existing slime session to load the new dependency ?

Thanks, Murtaza

Lift

Answer 1

You should have a look at pomegranate which is designed to provide similar if not identical capabilities as the one you describe.

As pointed out by @gergek in the comments, leiningen2 ships with pomegranate, so that if you're on lein2 you have to just fire something like the following in the slime REPL:

(require '[cemerick.pomegranate :as p])
(p/add-dependencies :coordinates '[[org.clojure/core.logic "0.7.5"]])

Have a look at add-dependencies docs for more info on how to use it.

Hying

According to its readme "Pomegranate is being used by Leiningen v2.x as its sole dependency resolution library". If murtaza52 upgrades to lein 2 he should be most of the way there? – Recrement

Somehow this does not work on my lein 2.5, I get this after entering the first line in a repl: FileNotFoundException Could not locate cemerick/pomegranate__init.class or cemerick/pomegranate.clj on classpath. clojure.lang.RT.load (RT.java:449) – Pilch