3rd-Party Documentation for Slick 2

This is a list of Slick 2 related third-party blog articles and documentation we know of. We cannot guarantee for the quality or that they represent our view of things. Please add more entries using a github pull request, if they can teach people something about Slick.

Many useful discussions can also be found at Slick Discussions and on Stack Overflow.

Typesafe / EPFL gists

• 2014-05-15 Inject custom SQL instead of the Slick produced SQL by cvogt

• 2014-02 Slick app architecture cheat sheet

• 2014-02 MaybeFilter: concisely write queries in Slick with many optional constraints by ruescasd and cvogt

Third-party translations

• 日本の / Japanese

Books

• Essential Slick - book designed to help developers become productive with Slick quickly.
• Learning Slick - A tutorial by Adam Mackler.

Articles

• 2015-02-24 6 months with Slick - Experience report from Movio.

• 2015-01-27 The Rough Experience with Slick - notes from ScalaC.

• 2014-07-14 Embracing Your Rows With Slick - follow-up of Renato Cavalcanti’s talk “Slick in the field, learning to forget ORM” presented at ScalaDays 2014. Video also included on that page.

• 2014-02-27 Clean and re-usable Slick modules by Andrew Conner, fortytwo

• 2014-02-11 Database patterns in Scala by Andrew Conner, fortytwo

• 2014-01-20 Scala Slick 2.0 for multi-database by Satendra Kumar, Knoldus

• 2013-12-29 Play Framework Evolutions with Slick 2.0 Code Generator by Christian Papauschek

• 2013-12-11 CRUD trait for Slick 2.0 by Cristian Boariu

• 2006-06-17 The Functional-Relational Impedance Match

Tips and tricks

• Solution for full text search in mysql

• How to use db constants and functions that use keywords as arguments

• Advice on Slick connection pool size

• SingleThreadSlickApi.scala

Plugins and extensions

• Slick Code Generation Plugin - This plugin allows you to easily generate slick Table schemas. Take a look at the test-project for example configurations.

• Slick Macros - reducing boilerplate code needed in Slick.

Example projects

• GitBucket - GitBucket is a GitHub clone powered by Scala which has easy installation and high extensibility.

• Slick Testing - It’s not immediately obvious how to write a Slick implementation without being tied to a specific driver. This is my attempt. Credit to Dirceu Semighini Filho who posted some sample code in a thread on the Slick Mailing List.

• SlickDroid - SlickDroid is an implementation of Android backend for Slick, it allows you to use Slick in Android project written in Scala.

• Slick Android Example.

• SlickChair - SlickChair is an open-source conference management system written in Scala. Built with the Play framework and the Slick database access library, SlickChair provides a highly flexible and extensible solution to manage a peer review process.

• Slick for Multiple Databases.

• Play Slick Examples from Lunatech - A Play Framework application that demonstrates how to use Slick for database access.

• Slick 2 Code Generator and Play - This sample project shows how to integrate the Slick 2.0 code generator with the Play Framework Evolutions (database migrations).