For a quick start, you can use this snippet in your maven POM:

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.0-RC5</version>
</dependency>

Or you can download it directly at our artifacts repository. At the same repository you can download our sample project, the vraptor-musicjungle. There is also the vraptor-blank-project, a base project configured with all required dependencies.

Another option is the setupmyproject.com, which allows you to configure and add some of the VRaptor plugins to your new project.