DZone interviews Ted Naleid on Grails / Redis

Andres Almiray’s interview with Ted Naleid, in which they discuss his Build-Test-Data plugin for Grails, his other Grails plugins, and using Redis with Groovy.

Mr. Haki’s series on Groovy 1.8 features

Mr. Haki has started an entire new series of posts detailing features of Groovy 1.8.

Grails Podcast, Episode 123: Cloud Foundry & Groovy 1.8

Glen Smith and Sven Haiges have recorded another episode of the Grails Podcast, “mainly about VMWare’s CloudFoundry and the recent Groovy 1.8 release.”

DZone interviews Shawn Hartsock on Gr8 stuff

This week, Andres Almiray also posted his interview of Shawn Hartsock, in which they discuss in detail how he got started with Groovy, the challenges he faced in enterprise integration prior to Grails 1.0, his Audit and QRCode Grails plugins, Gaelyk, and more.

Deploy Grails App To Cloud Foundry Via Command Line

Carsten Block’s tutorial on deploying Grails applications to Cloud Foundry using Ruby’s vmc.

GR8Conf speaker interview

Continuing their speaker interview series leading up to GR8Conf Europe 2011 (which is coming up in two weeks), the GR8Conf organizers interviewed Tom Fuller.

Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan

Yesterday, Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Our sources will neither confirm nor deny that Groovy and Grails played a significant role.

Plugin releases

Grails Email Confirmation Plugin – 1.0.4: send users email containing click-through links to confirm their email address

Grails Eclipse Scripts Plugin – 1.0.4: Eclipse helper scripts (create .classpath / .project files; download source and Javadocs for use in Eclipse)

Grails Extended Validation Plugin – 1.0.1: add validation capabilities to non-domain classes

Grails Ext JS 4 Plugin – 4.0.0.0: provide resources and template for Ext JS library

Grails Cloud Foundry Plugin – 1.0.0 M1: integrate Cloud Foundry deployment services; manage Grails applications running in the cloud from the command line

Grails Test Code Coverage Plugin – 1.2.2: generate code coverage reports using Cobertura

Grails Release Plugin – 1.0.0 BUILD-SNAPSHOT: publish Grails plugins to public or private repository; deploy Grails applications to Maven repositories without direct use of Maven

Grails Subversion Plugin – 1.0.0 BUILD-SNAPSHOT: provide SVNKit as dependency, provide class SvnClient for easier use of Subversion, and integrate with Grails Release Plugin

Groovy 1.8 RC4 released

The Groovy development team announced the fourth release candidate of Groovy 1.8 on Wednesday. Jochen Theodorou says (in the release announcement): “The main reason [for] doing another RC release is, that some bugs in the new optimization code were found (GROOVY-4741, GROOVY-4756), also there was an obscure GEP-3 bug (GROOVY-4774). Not only for the Grails people and ExpandoMetaClass acrobats the fix to GROOVY-4720 could be interesting.” (The full list of bug fixes and improvements is of course in the release notes.) Download RC4 at http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download.

VMware launches Cloud Foundry: “First Open Platform As A Service”

The folks at SpringSource are hoping for Cloud Foundry – VMware’s newly announced PaaS, currently supporting Rails, Sinatra, Node.js, Spring and Grails apps – to “become the premier deployment model for Grails (and Spring, Ruby, Node.js etc.) applications in the future.” The webinar announcing Cloud Foundry is up at YouTube, and there is a tutorial for Grails applications on Cloud Foundry at the SpringSource blog.

Music DSL With Groovy: Enter AST Transformations

Tiago Antão’s development of a Groovy DSL for jMusic continues – in this post, he introduces Groovy AST Transformations.

Grails Fixtures: A Great Way To Bootstrap Your Data

Partho Ghosh at IntelliGrape shows an example of using the Grails Fixtures plugin.

DZone interviews Ken Kousen on Making Java Groovy

This morning Andres Almiray posted a DZone interview of Ken Kousen, author of the upcoming Manning book Making Java Groovy. They discuss how he got into Groovy, the differences between Grails and Rails, Groovy training, the Groovy community, and, of course, the book, which is currently available through the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP), whereby you get to read the book as it’s written and give feedback to the author. (It’s expected to be in print by Fall 2011.)

Getting Started With Spock And Groovy

Hamlet D’Arcy has posted a screencast on the Canoo blog, demonstrating how to create testing specifications using Spock.

GR8Conf Speaker Interviews

During this past week, the GR8Conf organizers continued their series, with interviews of Ivo Houbrechts, Marcin Erdmann, and Paul King.

Gradle Gaelyk Plugin

Benjamin Muschko and Vladimír Oraný have released a Gradle plugin for Gaelyk. It is now at version 0.1 and its creators are looking for feedback. See the README to get started.

Compile-Time Metaprogramming In Groovy, Part 1

Victor Savkin has started a series on compile-time metaprogramming in Groovy; this is the first post, showing how to write an AST transformation.

Plugin releases

Gradle Gaelyk Plugin – 0.1: provide Gradle tasks for managing Gaelyk projects

Grails Activiti Spring Security Integration Plugin – 0.2.1: integrate Spring Security with Activiti in Grails application

Grails Cloud Foundry Plugin – 1.0.0 M1: use Cloud Foundry‘s deployment services for running Grails applications

Grails Cloud Foundry UI Plugin – 1.0.0 M1: add a monitoring UI for Grails applications on Cloud Foundry

Grails AWS Plugin – 1.1.9.1: ease use of Amazon Web Services

Groovy 1.8 support in Groovy-Eclipse

The Groovy-Eclipse team has added (experimental) support for the Groovy 1.8 compiler. See the announcement, which includes update links for Eclipse 3.6 and 3.7.

Griffon On Tour: Europe

Andres Almiray has compiled a list of upcoming European conferences covering (among other things) Griffon.

GroovyHelp 3.0.0 RC2 released

The second release candidate of GroovyHelp 3 was released on Saturday. This RC fixes a couple of bugs and adds support for Linux. Download it at http://code.google.com/p/groovyhelp/.

Grails JIRA migrated to Grails.org

Last week, the Grails team moved the Grails and Grails Plugin JIRA instances from codehaus.org to http://jira.grails.org. Among other changes, the migrated JIRA gives Grails plugins their own JIRA projects, with their own project leads and teams. If you had an account on the old site, you’ll still get to log in, but you’ll have to go through the “Forgot Password” process.

“What’s Groovy’s Culture?”

An interesting discussion on the groovy-user mailing list, begun by the question: “If I have to explain to someone new to Groovy, how would I describe Groovy’s culture?”

Upgrading Grails 1.3.x to use Hibernate 3.3.2

A quick how-to by Lucas Ward.

New G/GUG in Spain

On Thursday, Enrique Medina Montenegro announced the formation of a new Groovy and Grails user group for the Levante area in Spain. Visit their Google group at http://groups.google.com/group/grupo-de-usuarios-groovy-grails-levante. You can even follow them on Twitter.

Griffon: Your First Plugin/Addon

Another Griffon how-to from Andres Almiray, this time on creating a Griffon plugin.

GR8Conf speaker interviews

GR8Conf Europe is coming up in May, and GR8Conf’s speaker interview series began this week. They have so far interviewed Václav Pech and Erik Pragt. Keep an eye on the GR8Conf blog for more.

Plugin releases

Grails Fitnesse Plugin – 0.9: use the open-source testing framework Fitnesse with Grails

Grails Elastic Search Plugin – 0.15.2.1: integrate ElasticSearch with Grails

Grails Infinispan Plugin – 0.4.0: use JBoss Infinispan (distributed cache) with Grails

Grails Spring Security OpenID Plugin – 1.0.2: enable OpenID authentication in Grails’ Spring Security plugin

Grails Image Cropper Plugin – 0.2: use GSP tag library for Dave Spurr’s JavaScript Image Cropper

Grails Flickr Plugin – 0.1: use GSP tag to display photos returned from a Flickr API search