This Leiningen plugin lets you launch
a swank server on a remote machine via Leiningen. Simply add
[lein-remote-swank/lein-remote-swank "0.0.1"] and [leiningen/lein-swank "1.1.0"]
to your :dev-dependencies in project.clj and run lein remote-swank host to
start the server. Then from Emacs run M-x slime-connect to connect to your
project.
The plugin assumes you have a ssh key installed on the remote host. The private key path can be specified in the project file with the :private-key keyword.
The remote swank will listen on all network addresses, but will not be visible
if firewalled on the remote machine. If firewalled, it can be accessed using
ssh tunnelling, for example ssh -f -L 4006:localhost:4005 host
Once the remote swank server is running, you can then connect in emacs with M-x slime-connect on port 4006.
Copying is done with rsync. Rsync, lein and java all need to be installed on the remote machine
The rsync transfer respects any .rsync-filter file in the directory tree, which can be used to filter which files are transfered.
Recognized keys in project.clj
- :remote-user - remote user
- :private-key - private key file path to use
- :remote-path - remote path for the project
There is a 600sec timeout on the rsync transfer, which might require you to run it twice initially, depending on your connection speed.
You will need slime and slime-repl (but not swank-clojure) installed from ELPA for this to work.