Grails Diary - Week 40 in 2014

05 October 2014

We have entered a new month, and this means a new Ratpack release, this time version 0.9.9. It includes many breaking changes, as the minimum JDk version is now 8. It also includes integration to Spring Boot.

Griffon has been officially released in version 2.0.0. Notice that currently, you can access the new documentation at http://new.griffon-framework.org/, and the old (for 1.5.0) at http://griffon.codehaus.org/

Guillaume has posted the slides from his talks at Java One: Groovy in the light of Java 8 and Groovy in 2014 and beyond. I'm guessing Guillaume will write a bit more from the conference in the Groovy Weekly Newsletter.

Slides by Bill James of the San Diego Groovy Grails Group on what he learned from SpringOne 2GX have been shared here

Dierk König explains that Groovy in Action 2.0 is almost finished! It has been EAP for quite some time :)

Finally, as the very first Grails Diary post was in week 41 of last year, this weeks edition completes a full year of Grails Diaries!

Blogs, Articles, etc.

• Grails - Tracking Principals (Andre Steingress)
• What’s new in (upcoming) Spock 1.0 – part 2 – cleaning up (Marcin Zaj?czkowski)
• Yes you can override default #grailsfw create-app files (Burt Beckwith)
• I don't like Hibernate/Grails, part 8, but some like Hibernate and Grails. Why? (Robert Peszek)
• Gradleware Newsletter July-September (Hans Dockter/The Gradle Team)

New Plugins

• Grails UMeditor Plugin UMeditor web WYSIWYG editor integration plugin.
• Grails UEditor Plugin UEditor web WYSIWYG editor integration plugin.

Updated Plugins

• Websocket Chat Plugin Default WebSocket Multi-chat room plugin, supports Admin privilages, kicking banning users. Webcam support for chrome/firefox. WebRTC (audio/video) support 0.24+
• Karma Test Runner Plugin Runs javascript unit or e2e tests with karma. Provides a test type "javascript" which can be run in any test phase.
• Spud Blog Plugin Provides Blog / News functionality for Spud
• Apache Tomcat plugin Makes Tomcat 8.x the servlet container for Grails at development time
• AngularJS Resources Plugin Angular JS resources plugin
• JavaMelody Grails Plugin Integrate JavaMelody Monitoring into grails application.
• Grails UMeditor Plugin UMeditor web WYSIWYG editor integration plugin.
• Grails UEditor Plugin UEditor web WYSIWYG editor integration plugin.
• Groovyschema Grails plugin Declaratively validate deserialized JSON objects.
• 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
• Grails Reporting Js Plugin Grails Report Tool
• Criteria Js Plugin GORM criteria for javascript
• I18nEnums Grails Plugin Adds an enumeration usable on Enums to easy add and implement the MessageSourceResolvable interface

Interesting Tweets

• @GroovyMN Beginner Guide to Groovy - Good set of slides from a local MN company. http://tmblr.co/ZD7Mzq1SQKEEr
• @glaforge #groovylang received its "Best Tech" geek choice award from @zeroturnaround at #JavaOne Thank you! http://t.co/CaThzRWSeM
• @mojavelinux Every development conference should have a #Hackergarten like at #JavaOne (& many others). It just makes sense & a great experience.
• @mscharhag Reasons to prefer logback over log4j http://logback.qos.ch/reasonsToSwitch.html
• @burtbeckwith just found out about http://lowendbox.com/, a great resource for very cheap VPS options
• @JennStrater Packing @Gr8Ladies swag for @ghc Feel free to connect to talk #groovylang and see our session Friday 10:15am #ghc14 http://t.co/WS6fwXeXbE
• @venkat_s Code examples from the #javaone sessions today are on the download page at http://www.agiledeveloper.com/downloads.html
• @CedricChampeau I still fail to see why one would prefer using JavaScript for scripting on the JVM rather than #groovylang
• @craigburke1 Question for #groovylang folks using Spring Boot - GORM or just Spring Data?
• @grooscript Cheers @glaforge, grooscript in #JavaOne slides https://speakerdeck.com/glaforge/groovy-in-the-light-of-java-8-javaone-2014
• @mittie Breakfast thought: why is System.out.println not declaring IOException?
• @jaxlondon Must see session: "Spocktacular Testing" with @russel_winder at @jaxlondon check it out! http://bit.ly/1nhDpXL
• @asteingr The false optimism of GORM and Hibernate: http://www.anyware.co.uk/2005/2012/11/12/the-false-optimism-of-gorm-and-hibernate/ - not new, but very good stuff from Marc Palmer #grailsfw
• @grooscript Some demos together in https://github.com/chiquitinxx/grooscript-demos, added a demo for live convert #asciidoctor in #groovylang #reactjs style
• @unclebobmartin New blogpost. Clean Micro-service Architecture. Please RT! http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/10/01/CleanMicroserviceArchitecture.html
• @ysb33r Spend about 1h today showing the power of #gradle basics to a group of #maven users. They want to see more ...
• @waterprinciple @davidjrusek Or as they said at Überconf: "Maven has a 'get out of jail free' card, it is called Gradle."
• @goeh GitHub price plan does not play well with my #grailsfw plugin strategy: Lots of tiny plugins wants to be private before released #hittheroof
• @adambsilver New article: The boring front-end developer http://ift.tt/1rtDBLj #frontend
• @marcinerdmann Look @tomaslin, your blog post is famous! http://www.gradleware.com/casestudy/12-new-things-learned-three-day-gradle-training-tomas-lin/
• @crazysmoove @speakingcode @grailsframework Stay current w/ http://groovyblogs.org, http://grydeske.net/news/index and http://glaforge.appspot.com. Grails moves fast!
• @Lspacewalker like sass? like gradle? use them both! https://github.com/robfletcher/gradle-compass by @rfletcherEW
• @AlisonMcGreavy From javaone today 'Advanced java unit testing with Spock'. https://github.com/kensipe/spock-javaone2014 @mcrjava

Conferences and meetups