how can i run this from within a test

[Avner]

I want to start an instance of the db when running a test.
How can I do that?

[Fede Fernández]

The plugin was intended to be used for starting a embedded Cassandra instance in a SBT session and then execute the tests, ideally the integration tests.

In freestyle-cassandra, for example, we're relying on the plugin for executing the integration tests. We start the server in the travis file and then execute the it:test task.

See the Readme for instructions about how to start the instance through SBT.

[Avner]

I added this addSbtPlugin("com.47deg" % "sbt-embedded-cassandra" % "0.0.6") to my plugins file

when I am in sbt and run embeddedCassandraStart I get this error:

[error] Not a valid command: embeddedCassandraStart
[error] Not a valid project ID: embeddedCassandraStart
[error] Expected ':' (if selecting a configuration)
[error] Not a valid key: embeddedCassandraStart
[error] embeddedCassandraStart
[error]```

[Fede Fernández]

Thanks for raising the issue, it seems that the autoplugin is not working anymore and there is a missing default value. In order to use the plugin you need to add these two settings to your project:

enablePlugins(EmbeddedCassandraPlugin)
embeddedCassandraCQLFileSetting := None

I'll fix that for the next release.

Thanks!