Archive for December 4th, 2012

This Week in Grails (2012-48)

Tuesday, December 04th, 2012

The 2012 Groovy & Grails Exchange is next week – better get your tickets before they sell out.

The early bird price for the Greach conference has been extended until December 12, so grab a ticket before the price goes up.

Peter Ledbrook left VMware last week. It’s obviously a big loss for us, but potentially your gain since you can now hire him as a consultant 🙂

I released a new plugin this week, app-info-hibernate and wrote a blog post about it and the updated db-reverse-engineer plugin.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 5 new plugins released:

app-info-hibernate version 0.2. Add-on for the app-info plugin, adds extensive HIbernate information and graphs
fresh-security version 1.0.2.RC1. Security that “just works”, backed by Spring Security
funky-test-load version 0.3.9. Enables functional tests to be used as light load tests
localhome-config version 0.2. Configure the external configuration in ~/.grails/appName/files(Config.groovy,grails-app/i18n,web-app/)
mail-on-exception version 0.1. Allows one to specify an email address where all frontend exceptions will be sent

and 15 updated plugins:

airbrake version 0.9.1. Notifier plugin for integrating apps with Airbrake
akka version 0.6. Akka actors integration from Groovy and Java, in a Servlet 3.x environment
cassandra-astyanax version 0.3.2. Exposes the Astyanax Cassandra client as a Grails service and adds dynamic methods
cassandra-orm version 0.3.2. Provides GORM-like dynamic methods for persisting Groovy objects into Cassandra (but does not implement the GORM API)
cloud-bees version 0.6.1. Adds scripts to integrate with the CloudBees client API
cookie-session version 2.0.2. Allows you to store session data in a cookie
database-migration version 1.2.1. Official Grails plugin for database migrations
db-reverse-engineer version 0.5. Reverse-engineers a database to Grails domain classes.
functional-test version 2.0.RC1. Functional web testing using HtmlUnit to simulate the client browser
handlebars-resources version 0.3.2. Supports using Handlebars.js templates with the Grails Resources Plugin
jesque version 0.5.1. Groovier approach to using jesque
rabbitmq version 1.0.0. Integrates with Rabbit MQ messaging
rabbitmq-tasks version 0.5.3. Run background tasks using RabbitMQ to queue them
simple-captcha version 0.9.2. Creates simple image CAPTCHAs that protect against automated completion and submission of HTML forms
vaadin version 1.7.0-beta10. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration

Interesting Tweets

@danveloper: #Groovy extension for source value precedence in ConfigObject’s merge https://t.co/s2NbfUjO /cc @tim_yates
@loboweissmann: Recentemente ajudei um amigo, Felipe Augosto, a fazer seu TCC sobre Grails. O resultado ficou muito massa! http://t.co/6QekzmUB
@aurelienmaury: Followed method from http://t.co/zTm6jJ53 for a Xebia client to choose a framework with its own criterias. Guess who’s first… #grails
@werdnagreb: Just pushed some major memory improvements to #Groovy–#Eclipse. @andy_clement is just about done with compile static improvements.
@tim_yates: I love that you can drop #Clojure Persistent collections into some #Groovy https://t.co/pNyePnbx
@GroovyMN: Our site got a much needed facelift. Let us know what you think of the new look. http://t.co/bCiW3rnl #grails #groovy #responsive
@aalmiray: don’t let appearances fool you, this https://t.co/BDvlg8Uw is as close we can to Traits support in groovy with our updating the grammar 😀
@fogelmania: Evgeny Goldin @evgeny_goldin, #Builds, #Groovy and #Gradle commander, Will have a talk at #javaisrael. http://t.co/eY9LDN1N. TNKS Evgeny!
@rafael_luque: My talk about the Spring Security OTP Plugin for Grails at @madridgug: http://t.co/ThxcP4Gl #grails #security #osoco
@zachlendon: Proud to have helped build the new Virtuwell mobile webapp, http://t.co/6EH5mvhJ. Check it out! #grails #backbonejs #jquerymobile
@DailyGrailsTip: Use the Guava library to create in-memory caches for #grails – http://t.co/SyHbMBIV
@ZAMBOKONECTOR: geshop – e-comerce mini system create by grails – Google Project …: http://t.co/E11kU7rl #comerce
@DailyGrailsTip: Replace grails console with the editor of your choice – http://t.co/yzJ7ax4R
@musketyr: and now the real example url 😉 https://t.co/GghU0H6s #groovy url routes for everyone