The news broke this morning that Pivotal plans to withdraw its financial support from the Groovy and Grails projects by the end of March, 2015. The heads of both projects, Guillaume Laforge and Graeme Rocher, have each blogged about it, with their typical grace, thanking Pivotal for the opportunity and assuring everybody that both projects… Read More
Unit testing Grails controllers, revisited
I’ve been neglecting my blog, which I blame on a combination of using twitter and being on a book project. More about those later. In the meantime, I’ve recently been working on some Grails projects and found an issue with unit testing controllers. I’m now on Grails 1.3.5, and I’m trying hard to do unit… Read More
Using a codec in a Grails unit test
This is a small issue, but I encountered it and found a solution on the mailing lists, so I thought I’d document it here. I was demonstrating a trivial Grails application in class today and decided to unit test it. The app has a single controller, called WelcomeController: [sourcecode language=”groovy”] class WelcomeController { def index… Read More
SpringOne 2GX final thoughts
I wound up too busy to maintain my daily reports, but here are a couple of items I want to highlight as important take-aways from SpringOne 2GX. Rather than just recap sessions or dole out marketing-type praise, I’m going to focus on some things I learned that I didn’t necessarily expect. A lot of people… Read More
SpringOne 2GX Day 0
I’m at the SpringOne2GX conference (http://www.springone2gx.com) in New Orleans this week. Monday (which they’re calling day 1 but I’m referring to here as day 0) consisted only of registration plus a reception and finally a keynote by Rod Johnson. As a frequent NFJS attendee, the “reception” was a bit of a culture shock. One of… Read More
Humor lost on Grails Podcast
During the last Grails Podcast, Glen and Sven mentioned how they’d received feedback from me on the previous podcast, part two of their interview with Scott Davis. Instead of reading my feedback verbatim, they made the (possibly wise) decision to just summarize it. The only problem I have with their decision is that I went… Read More
Minor bug in Grails selenium plugin
There is a minor bug in the selenium plugin for Grails. It has been discussed on the mailing list, but I thought I would also document it here. I’m using Grails 1.0.3 with version 0.4 of the selenium plugin, which wraps selenium core version 0.8.3. If you install the plugin and try to run the… Read More
Star rating in the Grails RichUI plugin
I’ve been working on a Grails application for rating the popularity of Grails plugins. Rather than just use a simple form with radio buttons or a drop-down list, I thought I’d use the star rating component of the RichUI plugin. The initial set-up is easy enough. First, install the RichUI plugin. grails install-plugin richui then… Read More
Getting a list of Grails plugins programmatically
In September, I’m very happy to be giving a couple of presentations at the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference in the Boston area. One of my presentations is a review of the various available Grails plugins. To prepare for that, I thought I’d create a Grails application that acted as a survey, so people could… Read More
Silly GORM tricks, part III: SQL keywords as attributes
I was writing a very simple Grails application and ran into a problem when I accidentally used a SQL keyword as a property name. This post documents what happened, and how I (pretty easily) fixed it. To illustrate the issue, consider a trivial Grails application called “messaging” with a single class called Message. class Message… Read More