Easy way of loading project's Rebar dependencies in Erlang shell

Question

I've got a project that uses Rebar as build tool. When developing, I would like all my app dependencies that are specified in Rebar.config be compiled & loaded in the shell as easy as possible. I'm using the Erlang shell in Emacs. What's a quick way to do this?

Cryptoclastic

Answer 1

I'm not using Emacs so I may miss the Emacs-specific side of your question, but when I want an Erlang shell with all my rebar dependencies loaded, I use:

erl -pa ebin deps/*/ebin

Teleology

The second -pa isn't needed: erl -pa ebin deps/*/ebin also works. I suppose you could alias that if you want even fewer characters to type. – Iquitos

I recommend using -pz instead of -pa. In case you ever have a module named lists.erl or gen_server.erl ... or one of your dependencies has such a module ... you can avoid mistaking your module with OTP's. :-) – Immolation

Tnx for you answers. With what command can I now load all the modules inside the ebin and deps dir and start executing them in the shell? – Cryptoclastic

Created a seperate question for this: #6923991 – Cryptoclastic

Answer 2

./rebar shell

should load all your dependencies.

Honour