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Lift Application Development Cookbook

By : Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun
Book Image

Lift Application Development Cookbook

By: Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun

Overview of this book

Developing secure web applications is one of the most important tasks developers have to deal with. With Lift, it is easy to create solid and formidable web applications as it is the most secure web framework available today. The View-First approach and being able to handle things as purely data transformation, makes working with Lift an exciting task. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" teaches you how to build web applications using this amazing framework. The book moves gradually, starting with the basics (starting a new project, submitting a form, and so on) before covering more advanced topics such as building a REST API and integrating your application with other technologies and applications. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" takes you on a journey of creating secure web applications. Step-by-step instructions help you understand how things work and how various elements relate to each other. You'll learn different ways to process a form, build dynamic HTML pages, and create an API using REST. You'll also learn how to work with relational and NoSQL databases and how to integrate your application with other technologies as well as with third-part applications such as Gmail and Facebook. By the end of the book, you will be able to understand how Lift works and be able to build web applications using this amazing and exciting framework.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Lift Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Testing your application using an in-memory database


Until now, we have learned how to integrate our Lift application with the database using Record and Squeryl. Now it is time to learn, similar to what we did in Chapter 5, Working with Databases, about how to test an application that uses these two components: Record and Squeryl.

Getting ready

We will modify the project that we have worked on in the previous recipe. Again, you can modify it directly or create a new one by duplicating it.

How to do it...

To modify an old or a new project, perform the following steps:

  1. Add h2 as a new dependency into the Seq libraryDependencies section in the build.sbt file:

        "com.h2database"    % "h2"                  % "1.3.167" % "test"
  2. In the build.sbt file, set sbt to not execute tests in parallel using the following command:

    parallelExecution in Test := false
  3. In the test | resources folder, create a new folder called props and then inside this folder, create a file called test.default.props using the following...