Java development 2.0: Ultra-light Java Web Services With Gretty
Andy Glover has written an article for his IBM developerWorks series on Gretty, the ultra-light web server framework based on Groovy++.
Gradle: Domain Specific Language Based Build Tool
The Fall 2011 issue of Methods & Tools contains an article by Evgeny Goldin in which he introduces Gradle, focusing on its heavy use of Groovy DSLs.
Smart Bash / Zsh Aliases To Run Appropriate Grails Version
Ted Naleid has posted a helpful bash script which can decide which version of Grails to run for a project based on its application.properties file.
Groovy Goodness: Use inject Method On A Map
Mr. Haki is, as I noted last week, back to posting groovy tidbits in his daily Groovy Goodness series. Today he shows us how to use Groovy’s inject() method in a Map. (This feature is new in Groovy 1.8.1.)
A Ruby Plugin For Grails
This week, Bobby Warner announced that he has created a plugin which integrates JRuby with Grails. He wrote a post on his blog, describing how he built the plugin, and its source is (of course!) on GitHub (see also: the plugin’s sample application). This entire deal started as a follow-up effort to his earlier post, “Polyglot Grails,” in which he described a Grails application that can calculate Pi in Clojure, Ruby, Python and JavaScript.
