Grails Diary - Week 7 in 2014

16 February 2014

It has been a quiet week, but Guillaume has described the (new) Groovy infrastructure on the Groovy mailing list, if you wish to read about it, the link is here.

Tickets for conferences are now avaliable for both Greach and GR8Conf Europe, with GR8Conf US folowing soon.

I stumbled on a series of articles from JetBrains on IntelliJ, 30 Days with IntelliJ IDEA, it is not new (and not only for Grails), but I think it is worth a look.

Videos of presentations

• Case Study - Using Grails in the Real World (Greg Turnquist from SpringOne 2GX 2013)
• Advanced Groovy Tips and Tricks (Ken Kousen from SpringOne 2GX 2013)

Blogs, articles, etc.

• Groovy Weekly #8 (Guillaume Laforge)
• Grails - Java-Based Configuration (Andre Steingress)
• GUM Recap – Enterprise Grails with Spring Batch (John Engelman )
• Enum to Switch on Class types in Java and Groovy
• Benefit from Groovy now: when, how, why (Guillaume Laforge)
• Grails Goodness: Run Forked Tests in IntelliJ IDEA (MrHaki)
• Deploy to Heroku With Gradle (Marco Vermeulen)
• Getting Started with IntelliJ IDEA as an Eclipse User (Anton Arhipov)

New Plugins

No new plugins this week.

Updated Plugins

• 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.
• Grails Apache Nutch alternative Very simple alternative to Apache Nutch created i
• Apache Camel Plugin Provides message routing capabilities using Apache Camel
• REST Renderers Plugin This plugin allows for a more-streamlined approach to developing RESTful renderers in Grails 2.3+. The plugin uses the underlying Rendering framework in Grails 2.3 to provide developers with an opportunity to maximize reusability of business logic when developing renderers. This plugin also provides test fixtures for unit testing renderers with a mock RenderingContext.
• LESS Asset-Pipeline Plugin Provides LESS support for the asset-pipeline static asset management plugin.
• Hibernate 3 for Grails Provides integration between Grails and Hibernate 3 through GORM
• Hibernate 4 for Grails Provides integration between Grails and Hibernate 4 through GORM
• Grails Scaffolding Plugin Handles the configuration of dynamic scaffolding
• Grails Postgresql Extensions Plugin This plugin provides support for Postgresql Native Types like Arrays, HStores, JSON,…
• Retina Tag Plugin Adds retina resolution image tag support for asset-pipeline.
• Asset Pipeline Plugin The Asset-Pipeline is a plugin used for managing and processing static assets in Grails applications. Asset-Pipeline functions include processing and minification of both CSS and JavaScript files. It is also capable of being extended to compile custom static assets, such as CoffeeScript.
• D3 resources Provides resource files for the D3.js JavaScript library.
• Prerender Plugin Installs a servlet filter to proxy requests to prerender web service, to provider better SEO for AJAX powered websites. Learn more at http://prerender.io.
• Facebook SDK Plugin The Facebook SDK Plugin allows your Grails application to use the Facebook Platform and develop Facebook apps on Facebook.com or on web sites (with Facebook Connect). It is a port of the official Facebook PHP SDK V3.1.1 to Grails 2.0.
• AWS SDK Plugin The AWS SDK Plugin allows your Grails application to use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services. It provides simple wrapper service around the official AWS SDK
• jQuery for Grails Provides integration for the jQuery library with Grails JavascriptProvider
• Apache Tomcat 8 plugin Makes Tomcat 8.x the servlet container for Grails at development time
• Vaadin 7 Plugin Grails plugin integrating Vaadin 7 into the Grails project.
• Spring Security REST Plugin Implements authentication for REST APIs based on Spring Security. It uses a token-based workflow
• Simple Blog Adds a simple blog interface to an application

Interesting Tweets

• @CedricChampeau For you type checking addicts, you can now have checked templates! http://bit.ly/1jhkjl1 Don't forget that type checking is overrated ;)
• @tim_yates IMO, the best debugging tool is often "printing stuff out"
• @lightsabersd my day was just ruined by 1 sentence, “does it work in IE8?” #ofcourseNot
• @grailsframework Deploy Groovy or Grails apps on Cloud Foundry: http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/docs/using/deploying-apps/jvm/index.html. Grails service bindings: http:// docs.cloudfoundry.com/docs/using/services/grails-service-bindings.html
• @CedricChampeau Now that I know what interactive rebase actually does, I'm fond of it. This is worth reading -> http://bit.ly/1e2FZMu
• @ivo_es After giving a try to @gvmtool....YES it is really impressive!
• @wmacgyver Looks like some major speeding up on JSON support in #groovylang coming soon http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Improve-serialization-speeds-of-JsonOutput-tp5718316p5718394.html
• @davydotcom #Grails Asset Pipeline is now 80% covered on tests and has a deferred script tag lib to ease transition!
• @pledbrook In case you are interested where/how the new #grailsfw respond() method is implemented: https://github.com/grails/grails-core/blob/master/grails-plugin-rest/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugins/web/rest/api/ControllersRestApi.groovy
• @DailyGrailsTip You can compose closures in #groovylang via the << and >> operators. def times3plus2 = plus2 << times3 http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+1.8+rel ease+notes#Groovy1.8releasenotes-Closurecomposition
• @epragt Load testing with #groovylang and #ngrinder http://www.nhnopensource.org/ngrinder/ Looks very active!
• @bobbywarner The Asset-Pipeline plugin is installed by default (replacing Resources) starting with #Grails 2.4!! -- https://github.com/grails/grails-core/commit/ea70d4d90a2cc8d0204badc13f0be7c72ad5f57a
• @craigburke1 Cool! This looks like it could be a handy plugin! #gradle https://github.com/int128/gradle-ssh-plugin
• @tednaleid love spock’s parameterized test names…I can write meme-based names “theMethod should return #result because #reasons" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=because+reasons
• @CedricChampeau And TailRecursive makes into #groovylang ! All credits go to @johanneslink, awesome contribution!
• @DailyGrailsTip Did you know that #groovylang comes with its own permutation generator? http://groovy.codehaus.org/api/groovy/util/PermutationGenerator.html
• @burtbeckwith I just googled something and found that old #GR8Conf sites are available at http://2013.gr8conf.eu, http://2013.gr8conf.us, etc.

Conferences and meetups