Grails Blog

Grails is an incredibly productive framework, as good as or better than Rails.  One of the biggest hurdles to Grails adoption continues to be its perception among developers at large.

In it's simplest form, pagination in Grails is quite straight forward, but what happens when you deviate from the simple?  Dynamic finders to the rescue!

The Grails plugin ecosystem is quite extensive.  There are currently 240+ plugins available in the repository.  If you're like me, you use many of them in your projects.  One of the issues I've always had is how to easily determine if there is an update available for one of my installed plugins.  Here's a script to do it for you.

The July edition of GroovyMag is out!  There's a lot of great articles in it including the one I authored entitled 'Inline Editing with jQuery'.  The goal of the article is to teach the user how to create an inline editable datatable which supports editing with textfields, textareas, select lists, and datepickers.  On top of all that is sprinkled a healthy dose of ajaxy goodness.

A recent thread on the Grails mailing list sparked an interesting discussion.  Some developers have reported that 20%-40% of their development time is spent working around bugs in the Grails framework.

If you've caught the Groovy/Grails bug like I have, you may have found yourself scouring the internet looking for a good Groovy/Grails conference in your area. Denmark was lucky enough to host the GR8 Conference in May, but that is a long distance to travel for those living in the U.S. As luck will have it, there are a couple U.S. conferences on the horizon.

NetBeans 6.7 Beta is a good IDE for Grails development, but getting a Grails' project configured isn't always straight forward.  Here's a walkthrough to help you get up and running.

For those of you that like being on the bleeding edge, developer builds of Google Chrome are now available for OS X.  In this article I'll summarize the functionality of the most recent build.

NetBeans 6.7 Beta is a great release for the Grails community.  NetBeans' support of Grails functionality is nearly on par with that of IntelliJ 8.1.  But there is one glaring omission, debugging support.  As it turns out, the NetBeans debugger does work with Grails, it just needs a little love to get it going.

IntelliJ is the leader when it comes to Grails 1.0.x development, but its support for Grails 1.1 is a bit lacking.  This lack of support is what inspired me to give TextMate a try.  I've been using it for over a week now and have documented some of the pros and cons.