Gaelyk 1.0 released
This week, Guillaume Laforge, the Groovy project manager, announced the final release of Gaelyk 1.0. The big feature here is the Query DSL. Gaelyk users have been missing this for some time; to get an idea of the coolness and awesomeness and just sheer groovy brevity that is now possible with GAE datastore querying, see the “Google App Engine specific shortcuts” section of the tutorial (scroll down to “Querying”). The conversation in the announcement thread contains helpful bits and pieces and is worth skimming.
bloogaey, the new Gaelyk sample app: a blog engine
In time for Gaelyk’s 1.0 release, Guillaume Laforge has also posted the source for the new Gaelyk sample app, bloogaey — a blog engine written in Gaelyk to run on the Google App Engine. The goal is to have “a real app rather than just a mere small sample,” and bloogaey is a real blogging app, in the sense that it has post categories, a WYSIWYG editor for posts, image storing via the GAE blobstore, a social media harvesting apparatus, Atom feeds, comments (from IntenseDebate), Google Custom Search, and a deal more. All of this is on GitHub and accepting pull requests. (Guillaume has moved his blog to a deployment of bloogaey: visit glaforge.appspot.com to see it in action.)
GroovyServ 0.9 released
Yasuharu Nakano has released version 0.9 of GroovyServ. GroovyServ now has a Gradle build (the pom.xml for Maven is still included, “but maybe it will be removed at next version”), and there have been performance improvements. (René Groeschke has also updated MacPorts support for GroovyServ to this latest version.) See the changelog for the complete list of bug fixes and improvements.
“Should I use Grails?”
This week, Scott Eisenberg started an interesting discussion on the grails-user mailing list: “Should I use Grails?” Context is important here: The question comes down to whether Grails is mature enough to be used in a project given scaling, official support, and the number of available developers as concerns, and here Grails is specifically put in contrast to Rails. Many smart people have given in many wise opinions; in the opinion of yours truly, Nick Vaidyanathan’s is the unquestionably correct answer: “Should you? Definitely Maybe.”
CodeNarc 0.15 released
The CodeNarc team has released their version 0.15, with 23 new rules (the total is now 264) “and a bunch of bug fixes and enhancements.” (The bug fixes range from those correcting support of Groovy 1.8 to those improving consistency in log messages by fixing typos.) The complete list of changes is included in the announcement, and you can try out this release on the CodeNarc web console, which runs on the Google App Engine.
Plugin releases
Grails Redis Plugin — 1.0.0 M7: provide integration with Redis datastore
Grails Spring Social Core Plugin — 0.1.2: allow OAuth authentication though such services as Facebook and Twitter using the Spring Social library
Grails Spring Social Twitter Plugin — 0.1.3: allow authentication in Grails app through Twitter (depends on Spring Social Core Plugin)
Grails jQuery UI Widgets Plugin — 0.1.2: use jQuery UI by means of Grails tag libraries
Grails MessagePack Plugin — 0.1.1: expose Grails service classes through MessagePack
Grails Domain Schemagen Plugin — 1.0: output XML schema representation of Grails app’s domain
Grails Ant Plugin — 0.1.3: make Ant jars available to Grails app at runtime
). Do download this release and test it, if you’re into that sort of thing. The Grails team is working to make 2.0 final a solid release, and every bit of feedback helps.
) compressing JPG images using Groovy.
