Edd, I have some very complex themes, and after a while the whole 2-4 steps becomes very tiresome, so I deploy roller into eclipse (using a distro) and use the theme reloading option and eclipse to maintain the build (restart container for signature changes though). I know this breaks the mavern thinking but saves a whole heap of time.
cheers. On 15 August 2011 09:30, Edd Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I've recently been doing a bit of spring cleaning on my Roller theme, one of > the things I find really useful is the ability to set up some user and entry > data in the Roller Database then use mvn jetty:run to view that data under > my current theme, what's really useful is to have the data persist across > multiple maven executions so I can see how my theme tweaks change things > without having to re-enter the data each time I start Roller. > > I find something like the following allows me to make and review changes to > my theme quite quickly: > > 1. Add some user and entry content to the Roller Database - including > specific things I want to test whilst editing my theme > 2. Make change to theme files > 3. Start roller using mvn jetty:run > 4. Look at changes > 5. Stop jetty > 6. Repeat steps 2 to 4 until happy with theme > > There's a snag however - at the moment the Roller build understandably needs > to clean down the Derby Database as it executes various goals, for the > purpose of theme development this can be quite frustrating as it means I > have to re-create users and entry data each time I make a tweak to my theme, > which can add a lot of time on to an otherwise simple theme tweak. To this > end I have made a small local modification to some of the maven POMs and the > StartDerbyTask class, my changes add a maven boolean property which can then > be configured to make the Database content persistent (or not) across maven > executions, the default is to not make the Database content persistent so > that anyone can still check out the Roller source code without modification > and perform a mvn clean install with exactly the same results as they would > do today. > > I have found this change to be a really useful aid in my theme tweaking so I > thought I would email to see if anyone else might be interested in it? If > anyone is then I'd be happy to send my changes to one of the committers for > review in case it could be contributed back to the main project. > > Cheers, > > Edd > > Web: http://www.eddgrant.com/ > Blog: http://www.eddgrant.com/blog > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +44 (0) 7861 394 543 >
