Archive for April 17th, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-15)

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

Wow, what a week. After a lot of work Cloud Foundry was launched on Tuesday and the response was huge and very positive. It’s an open source PaaS, and community contributions are already coming in – there’s partial or complete support for Erlang, PHP, and JRuby. If you missed the webinar you can watch it on YouTube (part 1 is here and the other parts are in the suggested videos on the right). You can use the Cloud Foundry and Cloud Foundry UI plugins to deploy and monitor your apps, as well as using the STS integration or the vmc command-line client. Check out the forums for current information and to create support issues or start or join a discussion.

Here’s a sampling of the related blog posts:

and tweets (find more by searching for the #cfoundry hashtag):

@grailsframework: #grails sample applications for Cloud Foundry can be found at http://t.co/dSrtaiE #cfoundry
@cloudfoundry: Sign up is first come first serve at http://www.cloudfoundry.com – so don’t delay. #cfoundry
@graemerocher: Checkout the #grails Cloud Foundry plugin user guide http://t.co/7LjkbO7 #cfoundry
@cdupuis: #sts support #cloudfoundry published to extension install and #eclipse marketplace
@marceloverdijk: Just deployed my first Grails app to #vmware #cfoundry #awesome
@sarbogast: First #Grails application deployed to #cfoundry. So far everything worked smoothly. First roadblock for me: no email http://t.co/4ru4JFM
@adriancolyer: #cfoundry #mongo and #redis services fully supported by #springdata projects and #grails
@ajevans85: Cool http://www.cloudfoundry.org/ opensourced https://github.com/cloudfoundry . Need to find time to play, and trial with grails
#cfoundry We’re hiring across engineering, business and project mgt roles. Help us change the tech industry: jobs-cloudfoundry@vmware.com

In other news Graeme’s been doing some very cool work enhancing the unit testing experience for 1.4. The new approach will be a lot simpler using mixins – check out the latest docs.

GR8Conf is coming up soon, and more presenter interviews have been published:

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.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 4 new plugins released:

cloud-foundry version 1.0.0.M1. Integrates Cloud Foundry’s cloud deployment services to manage the running of Grails applications in the cloud from the command line
cloud-foundry-ui version 1.0.0.M1. Provides a basic monitoring UI for Cloud Foundry applications
modernizr version 1.7. Provides the Modernizr Javascript library resource files from http://www.modernizr.com/
mongodb-multitenant version 0.1-ALPHA. Enables multitenancy for MongoDB

and 15 updated plugins:

activiti-spring-security version 0.2.1. Integrates Spring Security to Activiti as custom IdentityService
code-coverage version 1.2.2. Generates code coverage reports using Cobertura
extjs version 3.3.1.7. Provides Ext JS resources
fixtures version 1.0.6. Load test data via a convenient DSL
infinispan version 0.4.3. Adds support for the JBoss Infinispan distributed cache
jetty7 version 0.3.2. Inspired by official jetty plugin and jetty7 plugin by Google Code
jquery-ui version 1.8.11. Supplies jQuery UI resources, and depends on the jQuery plugin to include the core jquery libraries
lesscss-resources version 0.2. Optimises the use of http://www.lesscss.org css files, compiling .less files into their .css counterprt, and place the css into the processing chain to be available to the other resource plugin features
mongodb version 1.0-M5. Aims to provide an object-mapping layer on top of MongoDB
recaptcha version 0.5.2. Integrates ReCaptcha and Mailhide services
redis version 1.0.0.M4. Integrates the Redis key/value datastore into Grails, providing a GORM-like API onto it
routing version 1.1.1. Send and route messages to a wide variety of destination endpoints directly from your Controllers and Services using Camel
routing-jms version 1.1.1. JMS integration for the grails-routing plugin
taxonomy version 1.1. Adds methods to domain classes to allow you to apply hierarchical “tags” to objects
weceem version 1.0-RC1. A content management system

Interesting Tweets

@dynamind: NEW on the list of “Things I Wish I Knew Sooner”: grails interactive (all the magic without the slow JVM startup / dependency resolving)
@ldaley: New Geb example up with Grails, Spock and JUnit » https://github.com/geb/geb-example-grails
@nllarson: Day 1 of not working with #grails. How long until the twitching goes away?
@wangjammer5: Dear #Grails users, please take 30s to complete this form about my grails plugins, it will be very useful for me http://t.co/ZxCX6kh Pls RT
@msgilligan: Banned in France? new SecUser(username:’admin’,password:springSecurityService.encodePassword(‘xx’),enabled:true).save() #hashedpass #grails
@vccarvalho: Having fun with #scala. But the the best is having fun with scala and it’s support on #grails. Tks grails team, for making my life easy
@nusairat: FWIW … #grails devs … demand is increasing and i am seeing clients INCREASE their rates to fill those demands … 🙂
@wangjammer5: The new Grails 1.4 unit testing stuff looks to be an astounding improvement. Exciting because writing tests is inevitably ugly.
@graemerocher: Finished working on the new unit testing mixins in #grails 1.4. Checkout the brand new docs http://t.co/iF2G44d