how do I get sbt to use a local maven proxy repository (Nexus)?

Question

I\'ve got an sbt (Scala) project that currently pulls artifacts from the web. We\'d like to move towards a corporate-standardized Nexus repository that would cache artifacts

Answer 1

OK, with some help from Mark Harrah on the sbt mailing list, I have an answer that works.

My build class now looks like the following (plus some other repos):

import sbt._

//By extending DefaultWebProject, we get Jetty support
class OurApplication(info: ProjectInfo) extends DefaultWebProject(info) {

  // This skips adding the default repositories and only uses the ones you added
  // explicitly. --Mark Harrah
  override def repositories = Set("OurNexus" at "http://our.nexus.server:9001/nexus/content/groups/public/") 
  override def ivyRepositories = Seq(Resolver.defaultLocal(None)) ++ repositories

  /* Squeryl */
  val squeryl = "org.squeryl" % "squeryl_2.8.0.RC3" % "0.9.4beta5"

  /* DATE4J */
  val date4j = "hirondelle.date4j" % "date4j" % "1.0" from "http://www.date4j.net/date4j.jar"

  // etc
}

Now, if I delete the Squeryl tree from my machine's .ivy2/cache directory, sbt tries to grab it from the Nexus tree with the appropriate URL. Problem solved!