2 Setup
Ratpack is purely a runtime. There is no installable package. To build Ratpack applications, you can use any JVM build tool. The Ratpack project provides specific support for Gradle through plugins, but any could be used.
Ratpack is published as a set of library JARs. The ratpack-core
library is the only strictly required library. Others such as ratpack-groovy
, ratpack-guice
, ratpack-jackson
, ratpack-test
etc. are optional.
With Ratpack on the classpath, you can use the API described in the next chapter to launch the application.
2.1 Using the Gradle plugin(s)
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2.2 Using Lazybones project templates
TODO