Updating intelliJ IDEA

Question

I'm using IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 community edition. The Scala plugin I use uses Scala 2.7.6. How do I update the plugin for Scala 2.8? Thanks.

Answer 1

If you use the latest edition of IDEA (9.0.3) and the latest version of the scala plugin for that, this should be easy:

1. You need to download the scala distribution for 2.8 to $SCALA28_HOME
2. To use scala, create a Java module and add the scala facet to it
3. During the addition process, you will be asked for a scala installation - point IDEA at your $SCALA28_HOME and it will automatically create scala-library-2.8.0 and scala-compiler-2.8.0 "global" libraries for you (it adds the library to your module as a dependency).

One thing to realize is that the embedded scala console (i.e. REPL) only seems to work if you add the compiler as a global library to the module as well.