Archive for September 26th, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-38)

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Bobby Warner is attempting to make hell freeze over with his new Ruby Plugin. Not sure what to call this – “JRuby on Grails”? This is a followup to his post on Polyglot Grails.

This week brings even more “Groovy Goodness” posts from Mr. Haki:

Joachim Baumann is writing a book in German about Groovy, and blogging in English along the way. Check out his series of posts on AST transformations:

Compiler Phases and Syntax Trees

Prerequisites and Annotations

The transformation itself

Testing and Error Messages

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 2 new plugins released:

ruby version 1.0.M1. Use Ruby code in Grails via JRuby
zoo-keeper version 0.1. Helper plugin to make working with ZooKeeper more Groovyish

and 12 updated plugins:

ajax-uploader version 0.5. Tag Library which implements Andrew Valum’s excellent file uploader
cloud-foundry version 1.1.1. Integrates Cloud Foundry’s cloud deployment services to manage the running of Grails applications in the cloud from the command line
cloud-foundry-ui version 1.1. Provides a basic monitoring UI for Cloud Foundry applications
console-enhancements version 0.3. Enhances the grails console output for better visibility
cucumber version 0.1.0. Test your Grails apps with Cucumber
jasper version 1.2.2. Enables use of JasperReports
jesque-web version 0.11.M5. Web interface to view and manage jesque queues, jobs and workers
json-rest-api version 1.0.10. JSON RESTful API for GORM
lesscss-resources version 0.6.1. 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
new-doc version 0.2.0. A backport of the additional functionality offered in the doc command in Grails 2.0.x
uploadr version 0.5.0. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader
yui-minify-resources version 0.1.1. Minifies static css and js resources using the YUI Compressor library

Interesting Tweets

@rfletcherEW: Betamax 1.0 is now available from maven central for all your http mocking needs! http://t.co/BJyAY9jt #groovy #testing
@mittie: KanbanFlow with #groovy and #gpars on dzone: http://t.co/8iFgCKGu
@skillsmatter: Just published: last night’s #ggug William Greenly on #grails #semanticweb @skillsmatter. Watch it here: http://t.co/oZijwJsl #groovy
@skillsmatter: Also published from last night’s #ggug @skillsmatter: @ldaley Q&A http://t.co/gmBIbNwX #gradle #groovy #grails
@tednaleid: our grails startup, @BloomHealth just got bought in a joint purchase by 3 of the largest BCBS health plans http://t.co/YXE7zVDd
@bobbywarner: I opened the very first pull request for #groovy on #github! It’s just the readme, ha! — http://t.co/N6Li6llH
@cincyggug: We’re starting a new Groovy and Grails user group in Cincinnati, OH. What version of Grails are you using? Are you on Grails 2.0.0.M2?
@smaldini: don’t loose time when you upgrade #grails app to 2.0 – instructions in http://t.co/7TxKRSH1 really help if you meet any troubles