Archive for August 22nd, 2012

This Week in Grails (2012-33)

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

Spring Tool Suite and the new Groovy/Grails Tool Suite were released this week. These are the new variants of SpringSource Tool Suite; the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite comes preconfigured with the Groovy-Eclipe plugin and Grails support preinstalled. In addition everything has been open-sourced and hosted at GitHub. See the information page at grails.org for more information and a download link.

Joe Rinehart and the guys at compiledammit.com are blogging like crazy about Grails. They’re Cold Fusion developers who are now having fun with Grails and are cranking out posts of interest to Cold Fusion developers but also experienced Grails developers. Check out Why Grails/Groovy? and Grails for CFML Developers for the motivations behind the change in direction, and of course all of the other posts.

Marc Palmer and Stéphane Maldini have released new versions of the platform-core plugin; check out the M3 announcement and the M6 announcement, and the M3 blog post and the M6 blog post. Also see the related posts Better i18n using the p:text tag from Grails Platform-Core and Safer access to request attributes in Grails plugins with Platform-Core.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 2 new plugins released:

underscore version 1.3.3. Simple plugin wrapper for useful Underscore.js library
xss-sanitizer version 0.1. Sanitizes XSS from user input using the OWASP ESAPI library to sanitize request parameters

and 11 updated plugins:

ducksboard-api version 0.2.2. Provides integration with the ducksboard.com pull and push API to display metrics in real time
external-config-reload version 1.2.1. Polls for changes to external configuration files (files added to grails.config.locations), reloads the configuration when a change has occurred, and notifies specified plugins by firing the onConfigChange event in each
federated-grails version 0.2.4. Uses Shiro and Shibboleth to integrate into federated authentication
google-visualization version 0.5.5. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
jquery-validation version 1.9. Supplies jQuery Validation resources, and depends on the jQuery plugin to include the core jquery libraries.
jquery-validation-ui version 1.3. Client Side Validation without writing JavaScript
platform-core version 1.0.M6. Provides functionality for plugins to use to achieve greater integration with each other and with applications
spring-security-acl version 1.1.1. ACL support for the Spring Security plugin
spring-security-taobao version 1.0.3. Integrates the Taobao Open API Authentication with the Spring Security Core plugin
standalone version 1.1.1. Runs a Grails application as a JAR file with an embedded Tomcat server
twitter-bootstrap version 2.0.4. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files

Interesting Tweets

@mittie: what I like about #grails: you can build a cool app even after 10pm and 2 beers 🙂
@tinypm: There is a new #grails kid on the block. We’ve migrated tinyPM and our new Grails beta is now live at http://t.co/M6Bgbu3J #groovy
@joeRinehart: #CFML dev looking to learn #Grails? Starting a series just for you: http://t.co/aEuKjeRT
@andy_clement: Our #gradle tooling (as well as our #grails tooling) is now open source at github: http://t.co/AdKD3Hfh
@IntelliGrape: You can set the default layout for your GSPs with grails.sitemesh.default.layout = ‘layoutName’ in Config.groovy. #DidUKnow #grails
@IntelliGrape: Need custom JVM args for grails run-app? Use grails.tomcat.jvmArgs = [“-Xms256m”, “-Xmx1024m”] in BuildConfig.groovy #DidUKnow #grails
@IraklisAlex: Caching null values to avoid DB queries, had to do it this morning, http://t.co/maR9IcII #ehcache #terracotta #grails
@robpatrick: Finding a semicolon in #groovy code is like finding a hair in your sandwich.
@KaiWaehner: #SpringOne 2DX 2012 Session List available http://t.co/ShbhpoLc => Some interesting sessions about Spring, Groovy, and Grails in Washington
@pledbrook: Using #grails database migration plugin early (straight after 1st time in production) will save much pain later. Or straight Liquibase.
@tomaslin: MercadoLibre has 40 million users and is amongst the top 50 worldwide in page views. Being rewritten in #grails ( via domix )
@DailyGrailsTip: If you are using the database migration plugin and get stuck because some applied migrations have changed, try “grails dbm-clear-checksums”
@bgoetzmann: Here my presentation on #Grails I gave at the Riviera coding WE. It uses impress.js and was gen. by a #Groovy script! http://t.co/LmQWB7Ny
@benboggess: Make all urls non-public by default with #springsecurity in #grails. grails.plugins.springsecurity.rejectIfNoRule = true
@darthvader42: amend “?debugTemplates” to URL to see how a complex gsp page is assembled from various templates #grails #protip