Archive for September 11th, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-36)

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

The big news this week was the release of Grails 2.0 M2. Check out the release notes for all of the bug fixes and new features. Groovy 1.8.2 and 1.9 Beta 3 were also released, and Andres Almiray announced that Griffon is 3 years old.

If you’re interested in the inner workings of Groovy, be sure to check out Jochen Theodorou’s post on primtive optimizations.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 2 new plugins released:

compass-sass version 0.3.1. Compass, SASS and SCSS support for Grails. Automatically compiles .scss/.sass during run-app, and adds other framework functionality
new-doc version 0.1.1. A backport of the additional functionality offered in the doc command in Grails 2.0.x

and 14 updated plugins:

atmosphere version 0.4.1.1. Provides integration with the Atmosphere project, a portable AjaxPush/Comet and WebSocket framework
dojo version 1.6.1.1. Integrates the Dojo javascript toolkit
drools-gorm version 0.5.3. Integrates Drools 5.2 and jBPM 5 and provides persistent storage using GORM
excel-import version 0.9.6. Excel & CSV Importer & Exporter using Apache POI
gorm-couchdb-elasticsearch version 0.8. Integrates CouchDB with ElasticSearch, indexing domain instances using the Couchdb _change feed
gsp-taglib version 0.3.1. Makes it possible to declare tags in a gsp in grails-app/taglib
jasper version 1.3.0. Enables use of JasperReports
jesque version 0.11.M4. Groovier approach to using jesque
jqueryui-widget version 0.1.4.1. Allows the creation of jQuery-UI via Grails TagLibs
lesscss-resources version 0.6. Optimises the use of http://www.lesscss.org css files, compiling .less files into their .css counterprt, and place the css into the processing chain to be available to the other resource plugin features
skin-loader version 1.0.9. Provides the ability to load “skins” into your application or plugin
taxonomy version 1.2. Adds methods to domain classes to allow you to apply hierarchical “tags” to objects
zeit version 0.2.5. Allows a caller to register a closure callback for scheduled execution
zkui version 0.3.2. Seamlessly integrates ZK with Grails’ infrastructures; uses the Grails’ infrastructures such as GSP, controllers rather than zk’s zul as in ZKGrails plugin

Interesting Tweets

@cfxram: New grails dojo plugin. Works in grails 2.0 now. #grails #dojo
@marcoVermeulen: My new website: Fresh Groovy! A single source for #groovy, #grails, #griffon and #gradle packages on #ubuntu linux. http://t.co/bgreipw
@ColinHarrington: Still very useful http://t.co/nXcXIxf #grails #testing
@jeffscottbrown: Hyphenated (or custom) url formats in Grails 2.0 – See http://t.co/f66BXLP. #grails
@goeh: Are you tired of all the sad financial news? Read #grails 2.0-M2 release notes. It will make you happier. Awesome reading!
@eXoPlatform: Learn how to quickly #social-enable an app developed in #Grails w/ #eXo #Social, w/ these step-by-step instructions http://t.co/PpybN5W
@fifthposition: #EXTREME_W00T: the #groovy site is getting a new design! Thanks to @glaforge (and whoever else is involved)… http://t.co/2o2jd0a
@andy_clement: #groovy #eclipse dev builds now include groovy 1.8.2
@javahispano: ¿Alguien interesado en colaborar en la Traducción al castellano de la documentación de Grails 2.0? http://ow.ly/6orGo
@tomaslin: Got an email back from James Ward saying that Heroku is definitively looking into supporting Grails. So happy.