Archive for July 16th, 2012

This Week in Grails (2012-28)

Monday, July 16th, 2012

Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) version 3.0.0.M3 was released this week.

Tomás Lin wrote three interesting blog posts this week:

and he also pointed out a new Twitter account that will be tweeting helpful Grails tips, @dailygrailstip.

Nicholas Hagen also had three blog posts this week, a series on using the improved Maven support in Grails 2.1:

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 was one new plugin released:

teamcity version 1.0.3. Provides build status and test run integration with TeamCity

and 6 updated plugins:

activiti version 5.9. Integrates the Activiti BPM Suite and workflow system
activiti-spring-security version 0.4.8. Integrates Spring Security to Activiti as custom IdentityService
ducksboard-api version 0.2.1. Provides integration with the ducksboard.com pull and push API to display metrics in real time
dustjs-resources version 0.8. Supports server-side compilation of .dust template files to their .js counterparts
spring-security-cas version 1.0.4. Jasig CAS support for the Spring Security plugin
spring-security-facebook version 0.9. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin

Interesting Tweets

@domix: Tomcat 7.0.29 always scan the full classpath, use this catalina.properties to speed up the startup for Grails apps https://t.co/x3nccp1z
@DailyGrailsTip: To see the output from your #grails tests, use grails test-app -echoOut -echoErr . To avoid report generation, use -no-reports.
@DailyGrailsTip: You can call abbreviated versions of #grails commands. grails cTL will call grails create-tag-libs – http://t.co/v2lAjJm7
@DailyGrailsTip: In #grails 2’s interactive console, you can call the ‘open test-reports’ and ‘open dep-reports’ shortcuts for easy access to reports.
@glaforge: #groovy jobs in the UK still on the rise: http://t.co/rLZmNDF5 #jobs