This Week in Grails (2011-47)

Rob Fletcher wrote a very interesting post about his frustration with functional testing. It’s long but a good read, especially if you’ve done a fair bit of functional testing yourself. Also check out Luke Daley’s reply.

If you’re not a subscriber of the Groovy-Dev mailing list you should check out this thread on static compilation. There are a lot of replies (over 50) and it gets rather technical but it’s fascinating stuff.

This is old news (from two weeks ago) but it’s new to me; the Grails-based myBalsamiq has officially launched. It’s a cool-looking tool for doing collaborative UI mockups.

If you want to keep up with these “This Week in Grails” posts you can access them directly via their category link or in an RSS reader with the feed for just these posts.

Translations of this post:

 Miscellaneous Items
 Plugins
 Interesting Tweets
 Jobs
 User groups and Conferences

Plugins

There were no new plugins released but 17 updated:

  • browser-detection version 0.3. Provides a service and tag library for browser detection
  • fixtures version 1.1. Load test data via a convenient DSL
  • gemfire version 1.0.0.M4. The GemFire plugin provides integration with the GemFire in-memory distributed data management platform.
  • grails-ui version 1.2.2. Provides a standard UI tag library for ajaxy widgets using YUI
  • gwt version 0.6. Incorporates GWT into Grails
  • hibernate-search version 0.2. Integrates Hibernate Search for domain classes
  • jquery version 1.7. Integrates jQuery
  • knockoutjs version 1.2.1.2. Provides necessary Javascript files for using Knockoutjs (http://knockoutjs.com/)
  • notifications version 0.2.6. Implements a publish-subscribe model to push information to subscribers through different communication channels
  • scala version 0.6.4. Allows you to compile Scala sources in the /src/java and /src/scala folders of your application
  • spreadshirt version 0.6. Wrapper for the Spreadshirt API
  • spring-security-saml version 1.0.0.M7. SAML 2.x support for the Spring Security Plugin
  • spring-social-core version 0.1.31. Allows you to connect your applications with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter
  • spring-social-twitter version 0.1.31. Connect your applications with Twitter
  • svn version 1.0.0. Provides SVNKit as a dependency; an SvnClient class that makes it easier to work with Subversion; and integration with the Release plugin
  • webxml version 1.3. Add additional features to your web.xml, such as Filters, Config Listeners or Context Parameter definitions
  • zkui version 0.5.M2. 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

User groups and Conferences

This entry was posted on Monday, November 28th, 2011 at 8:26pm and is filed under grails, grailsplugin, groovy, java, ThisWeekInGrails. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “This Week in Grails (2011-47)”

  1. Luis Arias says:
    November 29, 2011 at 4:58 am

    Thanks for the ping Burt!

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