IDE Support

Pants Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

The easiest way to use Pants with IntelliJ is to install the Pants plugin. For details, see the IntelliJ-pants-plugin README.

Ensime Project Generator

Ensime is the ENhanced Scala Interaction Mode for GNU Emacs, providing code navigation, type inspection and more. To install ensime follow the instructions at https://github.com/ensime/ensime-server

Pants can generate an ensime project file:

$ ./pants ensime src/java/com/archie/path/to:target

This will generate a project for the code in the specified target and all its transitive dependencies.