Archive for January 10th, 2013

This Week in Grails (2013-01)

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

The big news of this week is that there is finally a book available that covers Grails 2, Jeff and Graeme’s The Definitive Guide to Grails 2. There’s even photographic proof that it’s shipping 🙂

If you’re considering submitting talk proposals to either or both of GR8Conf Europe and GR8Conf US be sure to do so soon; the deadline is February 15. Submit for the US conference here and the EU conference here, and if you want to submit for both you can do that from either site.

I released two new plugins this week. The first was the database-migration-jaxb plugin which was going to be part of the database-migration plugin but it requires Java 7 or higher (more specifically JAXB 2.2 or higher) so I released it as an addon instead. It adds a new approach to creating database migrations – writing them programmatically using JAXB-generated classes. I wrote about this and the big new 1.3 release of the database-migration plugin in this blog post.

The other new plugin is spring-security-shiro which adds the ability to use Shiro’s easy and powerful ACLs and permissions alongside Spring Security and the spring-security-core plugin. See this blog post for more information.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 2 new plugins released:

database-migration-jaxb version 0.1. Adds support for migrations using JAXB classes
spring-security-shiro version 0.1. Shiro support for the Spring Security plugin

and 13 updated plugins:

akka version 0.6.1. Akka actors integration from Groovy and Java, in a Servlet 3.x environment
browser-detection version 0.4.3. Provides a service and tag library for browser detection
database-migration version 1.3.2. Official Grails plugin for database migrations
equals-hashcode-test version 0.3. Base Spock specification for testing equals and hashCode methods of domain classes and other Groovy objects
facebook-sdk version 0.4.8. Allows your application to use the Facebook Platform and develop Facebook apps on Facebook.com or on web sites (with Facebook Connect)
grom version 0.3.0. Sends notifications on Windows, Linux, and Mac
handlebars-resources version 0.3.4. Supports using Handlebars.js templates with the Grails Resources Plugin
newrelic version 0.5. Adds the NewRelic Real User Monitoring feature to your GSP pages
quartz-monitor version 0.3-RC1. One clear and concise page that enables you to administer all your Quartz jobs
remote-pagination version 0.4. Provides tags for pagination and to sort columns without page refresh using Ajax and loads only the list of objects needed
spring-security-facebook version 0.10.3. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
stripe version 1.3. Use Stripe to process credit card transactions
war-exec version 1.0.2. Makes the war files generated by Grails executable (java -jar myapp.war) by embedding Jetty. Jetty can be configured using properties in Config.groovy

Interesting Tweets

@ostfale: Start using #sublimetext2 for #grails development and it looks very awesome #editor
@DailyGrailsTip: Check out the mini profiler plugin for a better understanding of how your database is used – http://t.co/jdChe8EJ
@russel_winder: #Groovy is a dynamic language with static facility; #Scala is a static language adding dynamic capability. Programming is changing a lot.
@DailyGrailsTip: Grails Platform UI ( http://t.co/TAzNZod4 ) and Platform Core ( http://t.co/JZz111f5 ) cheat sheets.
@graemerocher: First day back on #grails, nice to see a #grails 2 book on the shelves for the start of 2013 🙂 http://t.co/CSDHHfBo
@aalmiray: still searching for Groovy/Grails/JavaFX expertise to spice up your projects? Look no further http://t.co/d03JJE26
@DailyGrailsTip: Add features available to plugins to your #grails app via the pluginator plugin – http://t.co/EWhL8WQy
@danveloper: One big reason I like #Groovy so much is that if there’s a feature I need of the language, I can have it now with extensions. No waiting.
@zachlendon: #Grails Tip:Use ${controllerName.capitalize()}Controller.${actionName}() in a filter to pretty-format the filtered controller & action name
@gmebarthe: I just bought: ‘The Definitive Guide to Grails 2 (Definitive Guide Apress)’ by Jeff Brown via @amazon http://t.co/hVQgbYI8
@fymd: OK where’s all the Groovy and Grails developers in Scotland ?
@jeffscottbrown: Looking for a Korean reader who can help validate a Grails pull request – https://t.co/sgnAGPNj. Thanks! #groovy #grails
@venkat_s: Thrilled that “Programming Groovy 2nd edition” has made top 10 in sales for last month! #groovy http://t.co/9CFBffyo
@pablomolnar: #Grails migration 1.3.7 to 2.2.0

√ Compiled
√ Unit Tests: 18
√ Integration Tests: 78
√ Functional Tests: 458 http://t.co/FLht0oj7
@DailyGrailsTip: There is a helper method to get all dirty properties in gorm – http://t.co/idIK9CUt
@DailyGrailsTip: To get rid of all changes made to an instance, call discard – http://t.co/eScfWf26