Archive for April 20th, 2013

This Week in Grails (2013-15)

Saturday, April 20th, 2013

The Groovy team released Groovy 2.0.8 and 2.1.3 this week.

Peter Ledbrook wrote up some thoughts about the future of Grails on his blog.

Check out this recent GGUG talk on Grails services, command objects and design approaches.

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 3 new plugins released:

grooscript-vertx version 0.2.5. Convert your Groovy files to Javascript
search-fields version 0.1. Auto-generate search query based on DSL in domain classes
yui-war-minify version 1.2. Runs yui-compressor on css and javascript resources at WAR creation time

and 11 updated plugins:

build-info version 1.2.4. Provides a controller/view that display basic information about the war file
coffeescript-resources version 0.3.8. Create coffeescript modules that automatically compiles on every file change with jCoffeeScript
cxf version 1.1.1. Expose Grails services as SOAP web services via CXF
cxf-client version 1.5.3. Use existing (or new) Apache CXF wsdl2java generated content to invoke SOAP services
easyui version 0.9. Supplies jQuery EasyUI resources and taglibs
ember-templates-precompiler version 0.4.1. Precompiles EmberJS powered Handlebars templates
envers version 2.1.0. Integrates with Hibernate Envers
filterpane version 2.1.3. Adds filtering capabilities
gson version 1.1.4. Provides alternate JSON (de)serialization using Google’s Gson library
paypal version 0.6.9. Adds PayPal integration
uploadr version 0.7.3. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader

Interesting Tweets

@rfletcherEW: If you find running #Grails commands screws up your terminal prompt `reset` should restore normality
@nagai_masato: GBench and GProf are now moving to Github as projects of GPerfUtils. Check out http://t.co/BrjVUpVq8O #groovy
@DailyGrailsTip: Validate Config plugin let’s you ensure your configurations are valid – http://t.co/GMM94GUAqx
@graemerocher: Happy JIRA issue number GRAILS-10000 #grails
@gvmtool: Groovy 2.1.3 and 2.0.8 is now available for download on GVM! #groovy
@paulk_asert: #groovy 2.1.3 bug fix release: fixes for enums, AST transforms, sql, generics, static typing, memory leaks
http://t.co/in2vc7LiXx
@gr8conf: The crew is ready to brew 150 liters of beer for #gr8conf Europe 2013. http://t.co/lr5FxUPUpj
@epragt: #Groovy in Action 2nd Edition, testing chapter: finished! Time for a break! Feedback welcome when the new #manning #eap is out!
@nagai_masato: GProf 0.2.0 is out! You can install the release by @Grab(‘org.gperfutils:gprof:0.2.0’) http://t.co/pi99KgjahX #groovy
@DailyGrailsTip: The reports of the “death” of DailyGrailsTip are greatly exaggerated 🙂 Stay tuned for daily Grails tips & info