maven is optional and complementary to the rake build process whioch works with MRI and JRUBY.
maven.apache.org explains how to install maven.
you can execute maven in the project root directory or in any of its subdirectories.
builds all the jar files, run all specs and installs them in the local maven repository.
will run all specs !!
all command line switches work for both the test as well the install goal.
to skip all specs execute
mvn install -DskipSpecs=true
to exclude one or the other database call
mvn install -P skip_oracle,skip_sqlserver
to have the reactor run over all subdirectories add the fail-at-end flag
mvn install -fae
just prints out all the style 'errors' for each subdirectory into the console
this goal produces a html page which can be viewed by something like
firefox target/site/findbugs.html &
without any extra arguments the jruby version is the default from the rails-maven-plugin, but with an extra argument
-Djruby.version=1.4.0
maven downloads (if needed) the respective jruby version and uses it.