Intellij IDEA can not resolve symbol with Play framework

Question

I am using IDEA 13 with Play 2.2.1 and was doing the examples on the play site.

public static Result index() {
   return redirect(routes.Application.tasks())         


        

Answer 1

In my case running the sbt command from a user that doesn't have permission for the project you're entering sbt in. Clean up and then change folder permissions with chown -R yourUser /path/to/project and it should fix it. After that ./sbt compile