Easy way of loading project's Rebar dependencies in Erlang shell

Question

I've got a project that uses Rebar as build tool. When developing, I would like all my app dependencies that are specified in Rebar.config be compiled & loaded in the shell as easy as possible. I'm using the Erlang shell in Emacs. What's a quick way to do this?

Answer 1

I'm not using Emacs so I may miss the Emacs-specific side of your question, but when I want an Erlang shell with all my rebar dependencies loaded, I use:

erl -pa ebin deps/*/ebin

Answer 2

./rebar shell

should load all your dependencies.