Archive for August 21st, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-33)

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

René Scheibe has released a CodeNarc plugin for Eclipse/STS. This is great since it allows you to see rule violations in real time as you work. Very cool stuff.

Peter Ledbrook started a discussion on the Dev mailing list about a process for translating the Grails user guide into multiple languages. This has generated a lot of interest and some commits already (including some towards a Portuguese translation by Paulo Pereira who translates these posts each week), and there’s already a Japanese translation available. There’s now a Github fork that anyone can get access to for committing translations, and that work will be pulled into the main repo periodically. See this post for how to get started.

A new plugin was released this week that got my interest, spring-security-saml. This is an extension plugin for the Spring Security Core plugin and adds SAML support. I worked with SAML a couple of years ago and it wasn’t much fun. I have high hopes this plugin will help users to avoid the pain usually involved in getting SAML-based authentication working.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 4 new plugins released:

gestate version 0.1. A Grails state engine plugin
inviter version 0.1. A Grails port of the functionality found in the OpenInviter PHP project
redis-gorm version 1.0.0.M7. Integrates the Redis key/value datastore into Grails, providing a GORM-like API onto it
spring-security-saml version 1.0.0.M1. SAML 2.x support for the Spring Security Plugin

and 20 updated plugins:

activiti version 5.7. Integrates the Activiti BPM Suite and workflow system
birt-report version 3.7.0.0. Embeds reports created using the BIRT Report Engine into your application
database-migration version 1.0. Official Grails plugin for database migrations
force-response-download version 0.1.3. Forces the browser to open a dialog for downloading content produced within controller actions
grails-melody version 1.7. Integrates the JavaMelody system monitoring tool
lesscss version 0.9.5. Less CSS framework plugin
mongodb version 1.0.0.M7. Aims to provide an object-mapping layer on top of MongoDB
navigation version 1.3. Implements simple menu navigation using convention
redis version 1.0.0.M9. Provides integration with a Redis datastore
searchable version 0.6.3. Adds rich search functionality to Grails domain models
shiro-ui version 1.0-beta4. A basic Shiro User Interface
spring-security-core version 1.2.1. The official Grails security plugin; integrates with Spring Security
spring-social-core version 0.1.4. Allows you to connect your applications with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter
spring-social-facebook version 0.1.2. NOTFOUND
spring-social-twitter version 0.1.5. Connect your applications with Twitter
springcache version 1.3.2-SNAPSHOT. Caches Spring bean methods and page fragments generated by Grails controllers
tiny-mce version 3.4.4. Integrates the TinyMce editor javascript and tags to embed the editor in your GSP pages
transaction-handling version 0.1.3. Advanced management of transactions – a backport of http://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-7093
ulc version 0.3.5. Provides access to the Canoo UltraLightClient (ULC) RIA kit
uploadr version 0.4.3. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader

Interesting Tweets

@pledbrook: Submit your talks for #groovy & #grails eXchange: http://t.co/UfdzdBm (OpenID log req’d atm) #grailsx
@ojauze: We use #izpack to package our new development platform (based on #grails) at# michelin. Easy to use and do the job.
@HENDRA_WIJAYA: Pushed part of my #FeedR project to #Github. It is asynchronous feed fetcher implemented with #GPars and #Grails http://t.co/aSeYdDq
@jenskuesters: “Agile Entwicklung von Web-Anwendungen mit Grails” ist jetzt ebenfalls bei Grin verfügbar http://t.co/3G2fXyC
@graemerocher: New version of GORM for #mongodb is out http://t.co/akdd64Q See updated docs here http://t.co/AJLkiY1 #grails #nosql
@graemerocher: Gotta love the power of community. The #grails 2.0 user guide translation to Japanese http://t.co/vTWKOO8
@pledbrook: Public clone of #grails user guide repository: http://t.co/bajxYOf – just ask for commit rights.
@pledbrook: Also, support added for translations of the #grails user guide, comme ça: http://t.co/bajxYOf (see README).
@HamletDRC: August Hackergarten: Grails and Mirah night in Basel. Come learn some new tricks or at least eat & drink with us. http://t.co/YnCeiH0
@dvanroeyen: @graemerocher We could use a few more beta testers at http://t.co/Aq1tJzu #grails of course
@aalmiray: feedback wanted for http://t.co/KaBVQCX #griffon #groovy #bindings
@tomaslin: Initial version of our inviter plugin for grails published. Invite friends from Facebook,Twitter,LinkedIn,Gmail…http://t.co/jMm8zw6
@maliciousmind: A Pattern To Simplify Grails Controllers http://t.co/cVq6WvF #grails