How can I specify a different config file for testing in Play 2.1

Question

I would like to define different database connections for multiple test environments(Production, Staging, Development). After reading the post \"How do I specify a config file w

Answer 1

You can run your application from console with alternative config file, anyway you need to use -Dconfig.file with full path as there are some problems ... that I can't realize with other option. For an example in unix env:

play -Dconfig.file=/home/akkie/play/some-project/conf/local_akkie_dev.conf "~run 9123"

Of course for easier launching you can create bash script for calling this line.

Edit: Note that you don't need to write whole config in each additional config file, as you can just include your main config at beginning and then overwrite only required properties :

include "application.conf"

key.to.override=blah

Take a look to the official doc