I normally deploy Clojure web applications by packaging them then up into an uberjar with lein uberjar, copying the jar to the server and running it with:

java -jar my-app-standalone.jar

Recently I had a script that I wanted to run on a periodic basis on the server too (indexing data into Elastic Search).

It wasn’t clear to me at first how I could package the script up into the same uberjar and call it on the server.

With a bit of help from the Clojurians, I found I could write a script as follows:

(ns my-app.scripts.my-script)

(defn -main []
  (println "This is my script"))

And run it from the uberjar with:

java -cp my-app-standalone.jar clojure.main -m my-app.scripts.my-script

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