Archive for July 3rd, 2012

This Week in Grails (2012-26)

Tuesday, July 03rd, 2012

My apologies for not doing a post last week; I was traveling (doing two Groovy and Grails courses back-to-back) and didn’t have time.

The big news of the last two weeks is the Groovy 2.0 release. Lots of cool stuff there including static type checking, static compilation, modularity, and Invoke Dynamic support. Check out Cédric Champeau’s “Groovy 2.0 from an insider” post, Andre Steingress’ “Groovy 2.0: Love for Grails Command Objects” post, and this older post based on a 2.0 RC, Writing sentences with Groovy 2.0.

Grails 2.1 RC3 was released and the 2.1 GA release will be out soon. Test it now to get an early start on your upgrade and to help find any remaining issues.

Matt Raible and James Ward did a Play vs. Grails Smackdown at ÜberConf. The Grails version of the app did very well, especially considering all of the Play/Scala fanboy hype that we’ve had to put up with.

Netflix open sourced their Grails-based Asgard management and deployment app.
Asgard. They’re also hiring a Grails developer (see the Jobs section for the link and details).

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 3 new plugins released:

federated-grails version 0.2.1. Uses Shiro and Shibboleth to integrate into federated authentication
font-awesome-resources version 0.1. Integrates the Font Awesome icon set
spring-security-eventlog version 0.2. Logs Spring Security events

and 13 updated plugins:

ajaxflow version 0.2.3. Enables Ajaxified Webflows
bcrypt version 1.0. Performs bcrypt hashing
cucumber version 0.6.0. Test your Grails apps with Cucumber
grom version 0.2.4. Sends notifications on Windows, Linux, and Mac
gsp-resources version 0.4. Use the resources plugin to include static files like main.css.gsp, so dynamically built CSS and JS can be served as proper files instead of inlined in a non-cacheable GSP file
guard version 1.0.6. Provides a way to run integration tests without having to repeatedly bootstrap the environment
handlebars-resources version 0.3. Supports using Handlebars.js templates with the Grails Resources Plugin
infinispan version 1.0.1. Adds support for the JBoss Infinispan distributed cache
kickstart-with-bootstrap version 0.6.0. Start your project with a good looking frontend, with adapted scaffolding templates for standard CRUD pages using Twitter Bootstrap
spring-security-saml version 1.0.0.M15. SAML 2.x support for the Spring Security Plugin
uploadr version 0.5.11. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader
xwiki-rendering version 0.6. Convert texts using XWiki Rendering Framework
yammer-metrics version 2.1.2-2. Packages Coda Hale’s yammer metrics jars

Interesting Tweets

@jeffscottbrown: I spent a little time tonight building a Groovy 2 Extension Module for datomic. https://t.co/Obj4vNk5 #groovy #datomic
@dmitrybrin: Got a call from JRebel rep asking how we handle our redeployment strategies during development cycle. My answer: #Grails 🙂 ..sorry guys.
@glaforge: Nice to see a proposal for the next #JavaScript to include #groovy‘s safe navigation operator! http://t.co/frS2q7Ta
@burtbeckwith: “The Flying Car of Video Messaging” a #boston area #grails powered social video app
@pledbrook: First stab at performance tuning for #grails based on @lhotari email: http://t.co/l6NSSqp2 – feedback welcome!
@rfletcherEW: Want to automatically have a ‘last updated’ timestamp in your #cloudfoundry #grails app pages? https://t.co/NFMHyYUp
@graemerocher: Interesting . Grails smoked Play! in pretty much every performance benchmark. So much for Groovy vs Scala. http://t.co/LwUC9K9k
@divideby0: @graemerocher i also did a grails submission for the great web framework shootout: http://t.co/ScJrfBQM smoked both django and rails
@rfletcherEW: I’ve published a snapshot of my #angularjs #grails scaffolding plugin: http://t.co/cFHxcjUw
@rfletcherEW: Had fun TDD’ing my #grails #angularjs plugin with @casperjs_org. Good way to learn #coffeescript too https://t.co/31anE8sa
@ag1le: #skynews website http://t.co/A5gbcX2c and cms is now live – built using #grails – phew
@dhanushgopinath: @graemerocher I was previously part of a team which launched http://t.co/a2A3L6ds on #grails. Developing it was cool and fast.
@robpatrick: You know you are a #groovy developer when,… you can fix bugs with a shocked elvis ?: 0
@_cr381ve: Migrating to the new grails plugin repository – remember to request access and install release plugin 2.0.3 -> http://t.co/gmOPUgGJ
@giplugin: The Grails Infinispan Plugin has been released as version 1.0.1 and works with Grails version 2.0.4. Questions and comments are welcomed.
@andy_clement: The #groovy #grails tool suite (GGTS) is available ! Like STS but with groovy/grails built in: http://t.co/3rGKQScx
@Frans_van_Buul: Just migrated my current project to #groovy 2.0.0! Thank you @glaforge and team! rm -r src/main/java 🙂