Archive for May 22nd, 2012

This Week in Grails (2012-20)

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Grails 2.1 RC1 was released this week. As always you should look at upgrading to 2.1 now to find issues earlier rather than later.

Please try out the cache plugins. They should be pretty stable, and we’ll have better support and documentation for migrating from the springcache plugin soon.

GR8Conf EU is in just a few weeks – be sure to get your ticket soon. There was one speaker interview this week:

Peter Niederwieser

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There was one new plugin released:

dustjs-resources version 0.2. Supports server-side compilation of .dust template files to their .js counterparts

and 10 updated plugins:

bootstrap-file-upload version 2.1.0. Integrates Sebastian Tschan’s Jquery File Upload (https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload)
eclipse-scripts version 1.0.6. Downloads and links sources and javadocs for dependencies from public repositories
export version 1.3. Export domain objects to a variety of formats (CSV, Excel, ODS, PDF, RTF and XML)
fitnesse version 2.0.4. Makes it possible to use the popular Open Source testing framework Fitnesse in combination with Grails.
functional-spock version 0.6. Allows you to write and run Spock specs under the functional test scope
google-visualization version 0.5.1. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
random version 0.2. Wraps the high-performance, statistically sound Uncommons Maths Pseudorandom Number Generators
redis version 1.3.1. Provides integration with a Redis datastore
release version 2.0.2. Publishes Grails plugins either to a public or private repository
routing version 1.2.2. Send and route messages to a wide variety of destination endpoints directly from your Controllers and Services using Camel

Interesting Tweets

@epragt: @tomaslin Add grails.project.work.dir=”target” to settings.groovy. Grails clean can then be replaced by ‘rm -rf target’. Really clean then!
@BogdanD: #garage48 motify.co – favicon will say you which backend technology we use 🙂 #grails
@tfnico: Interesting new tool for mirroring Git repos: gittig – http://t.co/siYEbx55 made with grails
@pledbrook: Trying out the #grails platform-core plugin’s event bus on grails-website project. Has real potential.
@domurtag: I was roundly mocked for wearing my @grails_rocks swag to work today. I regret nothing and would do it all again tomorrow #laundryCodeRed
@rfletcherEW: Basic build.gradle for #groovy #spock & embedded #vertx: https://t.co/0WEUTYW8
@pledbrook: Loading #grails configuration as JSON from an environment variable: https://t.co/PyEXrPKX
@aalmiray: did you know @canoo offers high-quality training in Groovy & Grails? http://t.co/SKkT9JDc
@cavneb: Excellent example of how to use `inject` with #groovy https://t.co/hkIV2IrQ by @cdeszaq
@sjurgemeyer: Created a repo on github for my dot files. There’s some pretty good grails with vim and zsh stuff in there. http://t.co/bncMSctk
@vazexqi: Futures/Promises on the JVM using Java Futures, Google #Guava, #Groovy #GPars , #Akka and Twitter Finagle (http://t.co/hNRB2K6o)
@cavneb: I gave some love to http://t.co/ddLtQCL4 .. Added job integration with http://t.co/wf209Uic and social sharing #grails #groovy
@graemerocher: Just added support for using the reloading agent with mvn grails:run-app.. coming soon to 2.1 RC2 #grails #maven
@nicolas_frankel: #Grails scaffolding seems to be #ARIA compliant by default: nice surprise #accessibility