Grails Diary - Week 47 in 2014

This week has been the week of release candidates. The Gradle team is ready with release candidate 2.2.1-rc-1. Spring Boot is out in version 1.2.0.RC2. Both releases are bugfix releases, and they are of course available on GVM.

The Call for Papers are open for gr8conf.us and gr8conf.eu, please submit by January 15th. The Agenda for the Groovy Grails Exchange is also available by now.

Thanks to a contribution from Varun Menon, Geb now supports finding elements using WebDriver's By selectors

The work towards Grails 3.0 has lead to Graeme working on upgrading the Fields plugin to Grails 3

Blogs, Articles, etc.

Groovy Weekly #43 (Guillaume Laforge)
Example Using Grails Promises (James Lorenzen)
Object based security using Spring Security ACL in Grails (Anil Agrawal)
How to render JSON properly (without escaping quotes) inside a GSP script tag (Angel Ruiz)
Custom collections in Groovy (Marcin Gryszko)
How to use custom tags in grails controller, services groovy file (Ankush Kocher )
How to use Groovy Traits (Rohan Jain)

Updated Plugins

Asynchronous Mail Plugin The plugin realises asynchronous mail sending. It stores messages in the DB and sends them asynchronously by the quartz job.
Cookie Plugin Makes dealing with cookies easy. Provides an injectable service and expands request with methods to easily get, set, and delete cookies with one line
Atmosphere Meteor Plugin This plugin incorporates the Atmosphere Framework, which includes client and server-side components for building asynchronous web applications.
Jenjir plugin Plugin to interact with Jenkins : do real time builds. View build version history of a given job, derive summary information. Push Summary to Jira.
Arrested Plugin Generates RESTful controllers for domain classes and maps them in UrlMappings, generates single-page AngularJS-based views, and provides simple token-based security
Grails GeoIP Plugin This plugin facilitates grails integration with the opensource GeoIP framework offered by MaxMind. Using its straightforward API one can find out the country, area, city, geographical coordinates and others based
Cxf Client - Support for Soap Service Endpoints Used for easily calling soap web services. Provides wsdl2java grails target to easily generate code into src/java from configured cxf clients. Ability to dynamically update endpoint at runtime.
AngularJS Template Asset-Pipeline Plugin Provides AngularJS template support for the asset-pipeline static asset management plugin.
Grails Shiro Guard Plugin This plugin is built on top of shiro. It provides a grails guard artifact that is used to guard access to your controllers using shiro permission strings.
Jsx Asset Pipeline Plugin Implements JSX to JS compilation in the asset-pipeline plugin.

Interesting Tweets

@grooscript got demo ideas from #codemotion_es, snap for svg and babylon.js, something fun while completing documentation
@DailyGrailsTip Scalable Big Data Stream Processing with Storm and Groovy - http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/storm-twtterwebmd
@danveloper @sjurgemeyer @sbglasius with a compelling abstract, any chance to get a 1.5hr slot at gr8conf?
@DailyGrailsTip Custom Collections in #groovy - http://grysz.com/2014/11/14/custom-collections-in-groovy/
@JonasHavers Geb - very groovy browser automation http://www.gebish.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_EEMLsX_Q #groovylang
@CedricChampeau Delaying 2.4.0-beta-4 for a good reason: some of our community joint builds fail with this version (@grailsframework, @ratpackweb).
@rfletcherEW Not having #groovylang’s @Delegate results in a ridiculous amount of boilerplate when implementing the decorator pattern in Java
@glaforge Days like these when someone tells you they use #groovylang in their space telescope project… woh :-) #headinthesky
@ldaley It's very cool that the effervescent @danveloper will be speaking in January about his upcoming @ratpackweb book - http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3275
@guspower Indented Spock specification formats in Intellij - http://solidsoft.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/more-compact-automatic-spock-specification-formatting-in-idea-13/ (courtesy of @TomAkehurst)
@Gr8LadiesMSP We are very excited to have @objectpartners as a platinum sponsor for the December #gr8workshop ! http://eventbrite.com/e/gr8ladies-gr8workshop-2-tickets-14321918243?aff=twitter
@marc0der Great Java contract going for anyone who is up for it :D https://imgur.com/MilKmny
@craigburke1 Awesome! I’m so pumped! I just got a basic working prototype of word doc/pdf builders. Man do I love #groovylang. http://t.co/XPJm6P8oVc
@rfletcherEW As ever, bashing my head against writing Java code makes me appreciate #groovylang all the more
@GrailsConf For all Grails lovers !! Call For Papers is open for #GrailsConf India. Submit your ideas and experiences - http://bit.ly/1upjyjl
@mojavelinux We're really close to finishing up #Asciidoctor 1.5.2 now. A few more days and I should have the issues wrapped up. Over 30 issues resolved!
@CedricChampeau Fixing bugs is one thing. Fixing bugs without breaking binary compatibility is another.
@JacobASeverson New blog post on creating a simple UDP server with @ProjectReactor and @springboot if you're into that sort of thing. http://goo.gl/uNP0Kn
@SpringTip An extensive #Spring course: https://www.udemy.com/javaspring/ recommended if you want to get started with #springframework. @udemy
@sjmaple What you can build for free in 2 hours with Spring Boot, Twitter and Facebook http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/what-you-can-build-for-free-in-2-hours-with-spring-boot-twitter-and-facebook/
@objectpartners New OPI Blog Post: UDP Server with Spring Boot and Reactor - UDP support was added to the 1.1.0 release of project... http://ow.ly/2QQf2E
@tombujok Version 1.1.1 of p2-maven-plugin has been released! Grab it now from #bintray https://bintray.com/tombujok/reficio/p2-maven-plugin/1.1.1/view!
@crichardson Latest blog post: Deploying Spring Boot-based microservices with Docker http://bit.ly/1xgnSk2
@alsargent Groovy AST Transformations http://j.mp/1uBJXtI
@johanvos Thanks to the help of @aalmiray you can now use a single build.gradle file to create an Android APK based on an existing JavaFX project.
@snicoll JsonBuilder *totally* made my day http://groovy.codehaus.org/gapi/groovy/json/JsonBuilder.html #groovy
@ysb33r #jruby-#gradle-plugin 0.1.9 released - http://bit.ly/1uBK3k7 (or on #bintray http://bit.ly/1xyRsCX)
@vccarvalho #grails 3.0 application profiles is a huge step towards #microservices.
@Gr8LadiesMSP Tickets are now available for the next #gr8workshop Dec 6-7! Sign up now. http://eventbrite.com/e/gr8ladies-gr8workshop-2-tickets-14321918243?aff=twitter
@smaldini nope, programming is not something you can do by skipping computer sciences or math, and if you do, I don't want to run your software

Conferences and meetups

Groovy Grails Exchange, London - GB, December 12th - 13th, 2014
Grails Conf, New Delhi- India, January 10th, 2015 (CFP)
Functional Programming with Groovy - Bangalore Groovy Grails Meetup, Bangalore- India, December 20th, 2014
Greach, Madrid - Spain, April 10th - 11th, 2015 (CFP)
GR8conf Europe, Copenhagen - Denmark, June 2nd -4th, 2015.
GR8conf US, Minneapolis - USA, July, 2015.
Gradle Summit 2015, Santa Clara, CA, June 11-12, 2015.
SpringOne 2GX 2015, Washington - USA, September 14th - 17th, 2014.