List/Grid Tag Archives: Grails

Grails AJAX Examples
Early on, newcomers to Grails encounter a lack of working samples accompanying the framework. Good places for examples and documentation include the Grails documentation and bloggers. Ajax ...

Groovy & Grails Understanding – Part2
Grails Grails is a web framework based on Groovy and Java which can be deployed into existing Java web servers, e.g. Tomcat or Jetty. Its scaffolding capabilities let you create a new ...

Groovy & Grails Understanding – Part 1
Introduction Enterprises today require agile platform for rapid development of applications with ready assurance to quality of services, compliance to architecture and design standards. ...

Grails Design Best Practices
Grails is designed to be an interactive agile based rapid development framework which advocates convention not configuration. This article explained the usage and best practices around ...

A Grails plugin to bridge Spring Security and Shiro
I started using Spring Security in 2007 when I was tasked with adding security to a Spring/Hibernate application at the company I was working for. There were a few options to choose ...

Functional Testing of Dynamic Websites with Grails and Geb
Functional tests are like exercise: they’re hard work at the time, but in the long run you’ll be suffering more for skipping them. Yes, function tests — also referred to as system ...

Grails SQL Logging part 2 – groovy.sql.Sql
I discussed options for logging Hibernate-generated SQL in an earlier post but today I was trying to figure out how to see the SQL from groovy.sql.Sql and didn’t have much luck ...

Grails: Autodiscovery of JPA-annotated domain classes
There are some issues to be fixed with the support for adding JPA annotations (for example @Entity) to Groovy classes in grails-app/domain in 2.0. This is due to the changes made to ...

Logging Hibernate SQL
There are two well-known ways to log Hibernate SQL in Grails; one is to add logSql = true in DataSource.groovy (either in the top-level block for all environments or per-environment) dataSource ...

Stuff I Learned from Grails Consulting
I don’t do much Grails consulting since I work for the Engineering group, and we have an excellent group of support engineers that usually work directly with clients. I do occasionally ...

