Grails Diary - Week 37 in 2015

This weeks Grails Diary is straight from SpringOne2gx, where the news are generated all the time, and this edition contains lots of new releases, articles (MrHaki spoils us) and other news.

The Grails team are working fast these days, and releases are flowing, aided by the GRails release process in now fully automated in the Travis build. Three releases has been made the last week, and are the two bugfix releases 3.0.6 and 3.0.7, and the first milestone for 3.1.0.M1. The 3.1.0 milestone improves the REST profile and JSON output, and all the releases are of course available on GVM.
On the brink of SpringOne2gx, a press release was issued on Pivotal and OCI joining forces to support Grails, but the content is more a reminder that Pivotal is not the enemy (they did sponsor both Groovy and Grails full time developers for a long time)

Gradle has finalized the 2.7 release, providing support for Play 2.4, and more. You are right, it is available on GVM.

The 1.0 release of Ratpack is now a reality! Congrats to the team! The release notes are here. The Learning Ratpack book should go into early relase (the first 4 chapters) around now.

Marco Vermuelen has worked on the Groovy Scala extension module, and released version 0.2 and 0.3. Version 0.2 supports maps, and version 0.3 dynamically enhances Scala Futures. Spock testing of Scala code just became even easier!

The Lazybones templates for Groovy/Android development Grooid-templates has been updated, fixing a few bugs.
Mario García has also posted the slides and code from his talk on "Android apps with Groovy" from the Madrid GUG

Congrats to Griffon on the 7 year birthday.

The Grailsconf India will join the family of GR8conf conferences (US and EU). The call for papers are open a few days more. I will be speaking there this january (16th), on testning with Geb.
Also open a few days more CFP for Groovy Grails Exchange.

Podcasts and Videos of Presentations

Gradle Glam: Plugins Galore (Andres Almiray at JavaZone 2015)

Blogs, Articles, etc.

Ratpack v1.0.0 (Dan Woods)
How to build a microservice with AWS Lambda in Groovy (in less than 5 minutes) (Benoit Hediard)
Chef recipe to deploy grails war on a new production server (Tarun Saxena)
Groovy Goodness: Exclude Transitive Dependencies With Grape (Hubert Klein Ikkink aka MrHaki)
Groovy Goodness: See More Info About Downloading With Grape (Hubert Klein Ikkink aka MrHaki)
Groovy Goodness: Change Directory For Saving Dependencies Grape (Hubert Klein Ikkink aka MrHaki)
Groovy Weekly #77 (Guillaume Laforge)
Groovy Calamari: Issue 14 - 13th Sep 2015 (Sergio del Amo)
Write Criteria with has many String Types (Kirti Nandwani)
Spring Security in MVC 4 Using Spring Boot (Priya Darshini)
Using Groovy on the AWS Lambda Java8 Runtime (Andrew Taylor)
Zipping using password protection with Groovy (Francisco José García Rico)
Groovy Goodness: Operator Overloading in Reverse (Hubert Klein Ikkink aka MrHaki)
Groovy Goodness: Inspect Method Returns Nicely Formatted Object Values (Hubert Klein Ikkink aka MrHaki)
Groovy Goodness: Removing Elements From a Collection (Hubert Klein Ikkink aka MrHaki)
Dierk Koenig interviewed: Groovy is a pioneer for new ideas
Bazel Enters Beta, Supports Groovy, Rust and Scala (Abel Avram)
In Grails 2.5.1 don't name a request parameter "namespace" (Göran Ehrsson)
Spock – The Logical Choice for Testing Java (Philip Heath)

New Grails 3 Plugins

views-markup (1.0.0.M2) Grails views-markup plugin
views-gradle (1.0.0.M2) Grails views-gradle plugin
feature-switch (1.0) Grails feature-switch plugin
grails3-cors-interceptor (0.1.2) Add Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) headers for Grails 3 applications.

Updated Grails 3 Plugins

neo4j (4.0.5) GORM - Grails Data Access Framework
mongodb (4.0.5) GORM for MongoDB
hibernate (4.3.10.5) GORM - Grails Data Access Framework
cassandra (4.0.5) GORM - Grails Data Access Framework
handlebars-asset-pipeline (2.5.0)
geb (1.0.1) Grails geb plugin

Updated Grails 2 Plugins

Console Plugin A web-based Groovy console for interactive runtime application management and debugging
Grails AWS Plugin Amazon Web Services (AWS) grails plugin provides easy access to simpler functions of AWS
Grails Application Version Update Plugin Provides a more friendly way to update your application or plugin version.
Handlebars Asset-Pipeline Plugin Provides Handlebars precompiler support for the asset-pipeline static asset management plugin.
Grails Postgresql Extensions Plugin This plugin provides hibernate user types to support for Postgresql Native Types like Array, HStore, JSON,… as well as new criterias to query this native types

Interesting Tweets

@danveloper A must read for any JVM dev. https://twitter.com/charleshumble/status/643769977552678912
@sbglasius #s2gx morning session. Huge room! http://t.co/Dmy1g8cc7T
@ldaley Cracking a vino for the Ratpack 1.0 release. Cheers.
@ysb33r Dammit. #Gradle releases are coming out so fast, I cannot keep up with understanding new features.
@pledbrook Just noticed the 'jvm-component' plugin in the #Gradle 2.7 release notes: https://docs.gradle.org/current/release-notes#dependency-management-for-jvm-components
@kenkousen Thanks, @ratpackweb team, for changing the docs two days before my talk so I have to rewrite it AGAIN. (Seriously, nice job :))
@codepipes Exploratory Open Source Software Testing with @spockframework http://qaware.blogspot.gr/2015/08/exploratory-open-source-software.html
@CedricChampeau @marcinerdmann here is the patch if you want to take an eye: http://bit.ly/1iafIpn
@msgilligan "I started to use Spock way too late, because I initially assumed it would be a pain to setup…" #spockframework https://github.com/OmniLayer/OmniJ/issues/70
@sdelamo Great and inspiring post by @benorama Running a Startup with Lean & DevOps culture https://medium.com/@benorama/running-a-startup-with-lean-devops-culture-df50825b110b
@ilopmar New order methods and one bug fix :-) https://twitter.com/grailsplugins/status/641151682068512768
@kenkousen Finally watched the @GebFramework talk by @craigatk1 from @GR8ConfUS and it was excellent https://youtu.be/rpepX441E5g
@rahulsom @CedricChampeau @RyanVanderwerf @springone2gx https://github.com/rahulsom/s2gx
@GebFramework @kenkousen even though Geb was born through @spockframework's codebase, technically it is not based on but provides integration with Spock
@danveloper At least @heroku knows what Java developers want. They want Ratpack! https://github.com/heroku/gradle-getting-started
@al94781 Excellent resources to introduce you to @jenkinsci Job-DSL: https://github.com/jenkinsci/job-dsl-plugin/wiki/Talks-and-Blog-Posts /cc @daspilker
@jrubygradle Roses are red Violets are blue I can use JRuby/Gradle And now you can too! Learn how here: http://jruby-gradle.org/#running-some-ruby
@sheehan00 new auto-generated #groovylang DSL docs for the Jenkins Job DSL http://jenkinsci.github.io/job-dsl-plugin/
@msgilligan #groovylang tip of the day: never create a folder named `http://META-INF.services`
@grooscript Anyone played with polymer and grooscript? Dilvan1 is looking for you https://github.com/chiquitinxx/grooscript-grails3-plugin/issues/2
@codefinger Posted a new Getting Start with @Gradle on Heroku guide using @ratpackweb as an example https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-gradle-on-heroku
@grailsframework JSON and Markup views plugins released: https://github.com/grails/grails-views Added to upcoming Grails 3.1 web-api profile https://github.com/grails/grails-profile-repository/commit/18e7cff0e395a795053e797cf97c54677b830faf
@grainframework Gradle plugin for #graingen is now on the plugin portal https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.sysgears.grain http://sysgears.com/grain/ #gradle #groovylang #staticgen
@Gradlephant Ensure that the fat guy doesn’t forget to show you my hood #kreuzberg were the #gradle journey started years ago! https://twitter.com/breskeby/status/641013862645538820
@javazone We are publishing videos of the talks as fast as our internet line can handle ;) 37 talks are already up: https://vimeo.com/album/3556815
@breskeby Excited to give a #gradle class in my hometown. Special offer: I invite you to show you my city after class! https://twitter.com/gradle/status/639587392404393985
@JavaOneConf This week's #JavaOne Featured Speaker: @glaforge from @restlet! Check out his #Groovy Session http://ow.ly/RTVck http://t.co/Fm6XB4g16j
@jmnarloch #gocd #gradle plugin (with fixed link) http://bit.ly/1EK6KK8
@Android_Arsenal Inspector: Gradle build inspector, clarifies what's going on inside your Gradle build. http://bit.ly/1JLR4m7 #AndroidDev

Conferences and meetups

Gr8Ladies Monthly Meetup , Minneapolis - USA, September 21st, 2015.
Pittsburgh Groovy Programming Group: Introduction to Groovy and Grails, Pittsburg - USA, September 24th, 2015.
Groovy Grails Exchange, London - GB, December 14th - 15th, 2015
Grailsconf India, New Delhi - India, January 16th, 2016 - CFP is open!
Spring I/O, Barcelona - Spain, May 19th - 20th, 2016
GR8conf Europe, Copenhagen - Denmark, June 7th -9th, 2016.