Grails Diary - Week 5 in 2014

02 February 2014

The releases from this week is the Grails-Gradle plugin is released in version 2.0.0 and the Ratpack framework just released version 0.9.1

Søren Glasius suggest using the #grailsfw hashtag for twitter, to avoid to many hits on shoes. Graeme suggest the shoe community could just use #shoes or #sneakers, but it might not be possible ;)

Videos of presentations

• Grails Plugin Best Practices (Burt Beckwith from SpringOne 2GX 2013)
• Grails Functional Testing with Geb (Craig Atkinson from GR8Conf US 2013)
• Upgrading from Grails 1.X to 2.X : Tips, Tricks and Gotchas (Will Buck from GR8Conf US 2013)
• Design Patterns in Groovy (Venkat Subramaniam from SpringOne 2GX 2013)
• Turtle Graphics in Groovy - Extending Groovy with DSL techniques (Jim Driscoll from GR8Conf US 2013)
• Web Clustering, Integration with Terracotta, Quartz & Grails 2 (Ryan Vanderwerf from GR8Conf US 2013)
• Uncle Sam's Guide to Grails Security (Joe Rinehart from SpringOne 2GX 2013)
• Making Java Groovy (Ken Kousen from SpringOne 2GX 2013)

Blogs, articles, etc.

• Groovy Weekly #6 (Guillaume Laforge)
• Auto-Refreshing Grails Applications That Leverage the Grails Resources Plugin (Ted Naleid)
• Memoization in Groovy (Brendon Anderson)
• How to Serialize an Array of Doubles to a Byte (Wojciech Kudla)
• One more approach for diagnosing spring-security-core login errors (Burt Beckwith)
• Getting Groovy Gr8Conf 2013 Europe on Vimeo (Hubert A. Klein Ikkink)
• Grails Tests with Cucumber (Andre Steingress)

New Plugins

• Markdown Blog Plugin Add a simple blog and content editor to your Grails app, powered by Markdown.
• Api Toolkit The Grails API Toolkit is a set of tools that automate alot of the tasks needed to build your API by combining the functionality of REST, RPC and HATEOAS. Some included functionality includes api docs, real time notifications / webhooks, generated headers, responsive content type and more.
• Sanity Checker Plugin Utility for performing various Sanity Checks on arbitrary object data, providing a uniform set of responses for check failures.

Updated Plugins

• Spring Security REST Plugin Implements authentication for REST APIs based on Spring Security. It uses a token-based workflow
• Grails Postgresql Extensions Plugin This plugin provides support for Postgresql Native Types like Arrays, HStores, JSON,…
• SASS/SCSS Asset-Pipeline Plugin Provides SASS/SCSS Compass support for the asset-pipeline static asset management plugin.
• A HTML5 drag and drop multi-file upload plugin A HTML5 drag and drop multi-file upload plugin
• SeedMe Plugin Implements a standard convention for adding seed data to your application.
• Simple Blog Adds a simple blog interface to an application
• Google for Spring Security OAuth plugin Integrate Google to Spring Security OAuth plugin.
• Wro4j Grails Plugin Web Resource Optimizer for Grails

Interesting Tweets

• @vahid_rI'm reading "Grails2 a quick-start guide" Honestly,it's maybe the best technical book that I've ever read on web development. Tnx @daveklein
• @tbsalling @GR8Conf EU 2014 has sponsorship slots available. Brand your company towards Europe's largest Groovy crowd. Act now! Cph, June 2-4, 2014.
• @tombujok  Downloading http file in groovy: address.toURL().text Love you groovy!
• @danveloper  I'm not so sure about this "Api Toolkit" for #grailsfw. I'm not sure what it offers over native functionality. The name is quite bold tho.
• @aalmiray oh yeah baby https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/pull/315 @TailRec is coming to #groovylang standard distro
• @DailyGrailsTip If you need to file a JIRA against #grailsfw, use the bug-report command to generate a zip file with your sources - http://grails.org/doc/2.3.x/ref/Command%20Line/bug-report.html
• @msgilligan  I created my first #groovylang file on 7-7-2004 for scripting a Java-based load testing tool. #almost10yearsoflovinggroovy
• @gr8conf  The call for paper is closed. Now the hard part begins. Selecting from the almost 100 entries!! Thank you #groovylang community!
• @CloudBees RESTful Groovy--@kyleboon reviews 3 frameworks for building RESTful WS--Grails, Dropwizard, Ratpack--& compares them http://ow.ly/t99ri
• @smaldini  neat #grails #GORM outside Grails - easy DB backend for the mass https://gist.github.com/graemerocher/c25ec929d9bcd1adcbea

Conferences and meetups