Archive for September 25th, 2012

This Week in Grails (2012-38)

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

We released Grails 2.2 RC1 this week. It has initial support for artifact namespaces, and uses Groovy 2.0. Please start looking now to make sure that your applications and plugins work with Grails 2.2 and Groovy 2.0 so we can identify and fix issues before the final release. Peter Lebrook pointed out that some plugin code is failing to compile in Groovy 2.0 due to it being stricter in certain ways.

The Groovy team released version 2.0.4 to address some issues in 2.0.3.

There has been a lot of interest in the upcoming Grails Hackathon November 9^th-11^th. It will be coordinated online but some local user groups are getting together to work in-person.

The dates for the 2013 Greach conference in Madrid have been announced – January 25^th-26^th.

The second pre-release version of Programming Grails is now available; there are four new chapters (for a total of seven). Download the updated version from your O’Reilly account.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were no new plugins released but 12 updated plugins:

airbrake version 0.7.1. Notifier plugin for integrating apps with Airbrake
ckeditor version 3.6.4.0. Implements the integration layer between Grails and the CKEditor web rich text editor.
countries version 0.4. A way to deal with continents and countries in Grails applications
federated-grails version 0.3. Uses Shiro and Shibboleth to integrate into federated authentication
jasper version 1.6.0. Enables use of JasperReports
modernizr version 2.6.2. Provides the Modernizr Javascript library resource files from http://www.modernizr.com/
newrelic version 0.2. Adds the NewRelic Real User Monitoring feature to your GSP pages
plastic-criteria version 0.2. Mock Grails Criteria for Unit Tests
searchable version 0.6.4. Adds rich search functionality to Grails domain models
shiro-openid version 0.7. Adds OpenID authentication to the Shiro plugin with a set of installable Shiro domain class and openid4java view templates
zk version 2.1.0.M2. Adds ZK Ajax framework (www.zkoss.org) support to Grails applications
zkui version 0.5.4. 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

@wendydevolder: ANN: #ggx Ticket Sales & Call for Papers now open – http://t.co/bheEwXxI #groovy & #grails eXchange 2012 @skillsmatter
@DailyGrailsTip: Read up on secure data binding in #grails – http://t.co/3FVRfsmj
@nadavc: If you’re into #Groovy or always wanted to learn #Groovy, check out my tutorials at http://t.co/ectxLw4x
@LondonGGUG: Priority deadline for submitting #ggx2012 talks is 30th Sep, so get cracking: http://t.co/NLOSpJdD
@tyama: Grails in Action, Second Edition MEAP http://t.co/0gDjfT0D
@DailyGrailsTip: In #grails 2.1.1, you can get a sample domain object by calling Book.first() or Book.last() – http://t.co/wS7NMGS6
@tim_yates: 114 char fizzbuzz #groovy m={s,n,c->[0:s].withDefault{”}[n%c]};(1..100).findResults{n->m(‘fizzbuzz’,n,15)?:m(‘fizz’,n,3)?:m(‘buzz’,n,5)?:n}
@tim_yates: 87 chars of #groovy (1..100).collect{n->[0:’fizzbuzz’].get(n%15,[0:’fizz’].get(n%3,[0:’buzz’].get(n%5,n)))} do I get a beer @Swizec ? 😉
@marcoVermeulen: Started a new Twitter account called @GroovyRelease. It tracks all news and release announcements on http://t.co/LwMfy2Sc Please RT!
@TeamMCS: Cool #Groovy #Spcok webconsole http://t.co/NwnLMDkG