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# getting-started

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[nanodeath]

there's a Getting started link you might try

[Ryan]

this one? https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/getting-started.html

[nanodeath]

https://github.com/JetBrains/Exposed/wiki/Getting-Started#download this one

[Ryan]

ooh that. I meant more generally though.

[Ryan]

Is there a database of magic strings?

[nanodeath]

depends on where it's hosted. https://search.maven.org/ (MavenCentral) is usually a good bet, but JetBrains likes to host things on bintray

[nanodeath]

e.g. https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.google.inject/guice/4.2.3/jar

[Ryan]

how do you know where something is hosted?

[Ryan]

Could not find org.jetbrains.exposed:exposed-core:0.29.1. guess I'm missing something

[nanodeath]

probably the repositories line from the Exposed wiki I linked earlier

[nanodeath]

normally it's in the README, or linked from there

[Ryan]

hmm ok

[Ryan]

Kotlin is super hard to use

[nanodeath]

you literally just click the Getting Started link and follow the directions for your build system

[Ryan]

I don't even know what my build system is

[nanodeath]

alright, from that perspective, yes this is complicated 🙂 but it's not Kotlin, it's uh...well, Gradle really

[Ryan]

I'll figure it out. Ta.

[Ryan]

I've never touched java or kotlin before, so everything is new.

[nanodeath]

if you have build.gradle, it's Gradle. if you have build.gradle.kts, it's still Gradle, but the Kotlin flavor. if neither, you don't have one

[nanodeath]

and if you don't have one, easiest way to get started is to ask IntelliJ to set it up for you, something like this

[Ryan]

yeah its build.gradle.kts

[Ryan]

I'm so behind on this project, oh well

[nanodeath]

in that case, this is indeed the section you want https://github.com/JetBrains/Exposed/wiki/Getting-Started#gradle-kotlin-script

[Ryan]

yeah... doesn't work. I'll play around though