Buildr – Keeping up with the latest and greatest

In a previous post I ran into some problems with Buildr’s support for Specs in combination with JUnit. I googled a bit and came up with nothing so I did what all newbies do. Ask the pros on the mailinglist :) (I stayed away from “plz help” and “could you plz send me a patch”). I was (of course) suggested to try the latest from head and I felt an unpleasant resistance towards downloading archives, figuring out how to point gems to the latest version etc. All of those things are probably simple but I just want to develop some Scala code and did not look forward to it.

Well, boy was I worrying in vain!