Grails Diary - Week 41

Blogs, articles etc.

The grails group on Facebook, also occasionally provide nice discussions

New Plugins

Swagger for JAX-RS Plugin Adds Swagger support to document REST APIs of projects that use the JAX-RS (JSR 311) plugin
MongoDB Create-Drop Provides applications using MongoDB with the ability to mimic the "create-drop" behaviour available for other databases.
Glyph Icons Plugin Bundles free icons from http://glyphicons.com

Updated Plugins

Grails Apidocs Plugin generate REST Api documentation.
JavaMelody Grails Plugin Integrate JavaMelody Monitoring into grails application
Domain Locking Provides easy ways to use optimistic/pessimistic lock.
Funky Spock Plugin Adds spock test type to functional testing phase
Ember.js Asset-Pipeline Plugin Provides Ember.js integration with asset-pipeline.
Spring Security ACL plugin ACL support for the Spring Security plugin
Apache Shiro Integration for Grails Enables Grails applications to take advantage of the Apache Shiro security layer
OpenID authentication support for the Spring Security plugin. OpenID authentication support for the Spring Security plugin.
Serializable Session Enforces that the session will only accept serializable objects.
Restrpc Plugin RESTRPC is an interceptor api that allows the user to associate more than one method/function per request method while still being compliant with the REST standard thus creating a ONE-TO-MANY pairing.
Optimus Plugin Grails Optimus Plugin lets you create some of the most popular artifacts that are not part of the Grails automation and scaffolding but are important to consider when building a Java Web/Grails application, such as log configuration, unit tests, services, logging and responsive and asynchronous views
Build Info Provides a controller/view that display basic information about the war file
Asset Pipeline Plugin The Grails `asset-pipeline` is a plugin used for managing/processing static assets.
Atmosphere Meteor Plugin This plugin incorporates the Atmosphere Framework

Interesting Tweets

@DailyGrailsTip Application Architectures in Grails - http://www.slideshare.net/pledbrook/grails-application-architectures
@DailyGrailsTip Testing Grails - Experiences from the Field - http://slid.es/colinharrington/testing-grails
@ldaley I'll be talking about Ratpack and Gradle + Grails at the London Groovy Grails Exchange on the 12th & 13th of December. Come on down.
@GroovyMN This month in GR8 - GR8 Tech: GR8Conf US videos starting to arrive on InfoQ... http://groovymn.tumblr.com/post/63110092560/this-month-in-gr8
@sbglasius Fantastic keynote from @pledbrook at #gr8conf US 2013 http://www.infoq.com/presentations/open-source
@grailsframework We hit 1,000 plugins in the plugin portal. Thanks our amazing plugin developer community! #grails #plugins #milestone
@DailyGrailsTip Grails and the Real Time Web - http://www.slideshare.net/StphaneMaldini/ss2gx
@bgoetzmann Why We Love Groovy and Grails: http://youtu.be/yVwbPgJHTnA via @youtube
@rfletcherEW For those asking why I moved @betamaxtest from Groovy to Java: purely to avoid potential conflicts in projects using it. Groovy still rocks!
@speakjava Just discovered that slides for many of the #JavaOne sessions are available on the website, http://bit.ly/19iAkDO . Excellent!
@grailsinfo Building Web Apps in Ratpack http://bit.ly/1bbqbrI #groovy #grails
@tomaslin Grails and the World of Tomorrow - from gr8conf US with Peter Ledbrook is now on info - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/grails-web-apps
@tomaslinAnatomy of a Spock Extension - http://www.slideshare.net/evgenyg/spock-extensions-anatomy
@platypusguy I *really* like the #Spock for unit testing. That's not its principal mission, but tests are so much more readable. http://goo.gl/kXIVD9
@JoeSondow Video of "The Road to #Grails" 3.0 by @pledbrook at Netflix from Sept 19, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1tUgJ5ogEg
@grailsinfo Groovy enters top 20 of the TIOBE language index http://bit.ly/1cDWune #groovy #grails
@Grails48 Thinking Feb 28, 2014 we show all other web frameworks who is the boss. Grails48 2 the worlds hackathon is back. Who is in?

Conferences and meetups

Groovy Grails Exchange, London December 12th - 13th, 2013

GR8conf Europe, Copenhagen, June 2nd -4th, 2014