Test my own composer package does not work - php

Question

I want to make a composer package. However, I am still in the development phase, would or would but the earlier test out.
I have an empty vendor folder with the autoloader from composer:
/vendor
/composer
autoload.php
So now I've tried my package "simulate" and creates my folder structure and composer.json:
/vendor
/composer
/me
/package
/src
/tests
composer.json
autoload.php
This is my composer.json:
{
"name": "me/package",
"description": "",
"license": "",
"authors": [
{
"name": "",
"email": ""
}
],
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"require": {
"php": ">=5.4.0"
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Me\\Package\\": "src/"
}
}
}
And here is my class:
namespace Me\Package;
class Test {
// ...
}
If I want to call it:
if(file_exists('vendor/autoload.php')) require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$test = new \Me\Package\Test();
i become Fatal error: Class 'Me\Package\Test' not found.
Of course, I also inserted a composer.json in the root directory, but I can still bad at require my package state since it was not published, right? But how do I test it then and say to composer he should autoload my package?

Answer 1

If you want to use composer to include a package that is not listed on http://Packagist.org/ you would add a 'repositories' stanza into the composer.json (project root file). This reads the project, and gets the composer.json from it, using the name for the main-'requires' section.
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://github.com/example/private-repo.git"
}
}
The 'url' part, can also in fact be any valid URL for a git, SVN or HG repository - even a file:// based reference.