Archive for May 1st, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-17)

Sunday, May 01st, 2011

Groovy 1.8 was released this week and it’s got an impressive list of new features (and Grails 1.4 has been updated to use 1.8) Check out Guillaume Laforge’s post and for more details see the extensive release notes. Mr. Haki published a bunch of blog posts after the release demonstrating many of the new features. There are over 15 posts so I won’t list them all – see them all at his blog.

GR8Conf is in just a few weeks, and more presenter interviews have been published:

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 2 new plugins released:

svn version 1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT. Provides SVNKit as a dependency; an SvnClient class that makes it easier to work with Subversion; and integration with the Release plugin
release version 1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT. Publishes Grails plugins either to a public or private repository

and 9 updated plugins:

avatar version 0.4.1. Provides a taglib for displaying avatars
cloud-foundry version 1.0.0.M3. Integrates Cloud Foundry’s cloud deployment services to manage the running of Grails applications in the cloud from the command line
code-coverage version 1.2.4. Generates code coverage reports using Cobertura
csv version 0.3. Easily parse and consume comma-separated values (CSV) from a number of input sources
eclipse-scripts version 1.0.5. Downloads and links sources and javadocs for dependencies from public repositories
email-confirmation version 1.0.5. Sends an email to a user with a link to click to confirm site registration
extended-validation version 1.0.3. Provides partial validation of (groups) of fields, cascaded validation and instance validators for non-domain objects.
gorm-couchdb-elasticsearch version 0.2. Integrates CouchDB with ElasticSearch, indexing domain instances using the Couchdb _change feed
grails-melody version 1.4. Integrates the JavaMelody system monitoring tool

Interesting Tweets

@smaldini: added #grails 1.4 doc on controller methods and scope http://bit.ly/fZpIi3
@graemerocher: Writing documentation on the new #grails 1.4 binary plugin feature
@jt_coleman: Currently adding arithmetic operations to #relationalscope for #grails & #gorm. Making Hibernate criteria do things that it couldn’t before.
@dleuck: Are you doing #Grails development in Hawaii? If so, join our new Grails group http://j.mp/mjHazz
@twicet: One of the best resources on the web for #groovy and #grails is @mrhaki ‘s blog. If you are a groovy & grails fan, keep an eye on it.
@fifthposition: Grails app with Groovy (of course), Java, and Scala (using #grails #scala plugin): http://is.gd/AjROtB. (Code @GitHub: http://is.gd/22ke2l.)
@dvanroeyen: bunchbill.com has entered open beta testing. Bill splitting when lunching regularly with a bunch of people. #grails #groovy #bunchbill
@chanwit: Try ZKGrails 1.1-M1 online – http://zkgrails.cloudfoundry.com/ deployed on #cfoundry. It uses #mongodb 1.8 #zk 5.0.7 and #grails 1.3.7