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I’m often surprised when I run across developers who don’t have a variety of HTTP traffic monitoring apps as an integral part of their toolkit. When doing Grails development (or any web development really), being able to see the actual information that is going over the wire is invaluable.
Firebug
These days, more and more people [...]
In a previous post I showed a script that I had created to allow the execution of a groovy script within a grails application context (including access to domain objects, controllers, services, etc). A couple of people reported a problem with the script where they were getting lazy initialization exceptions. I finally [...]
Jesse over at Refactr posted a nice tip about using tab completion for the ssh command. It grabs host names and IPs out of the ssh known_hosts file.
That got me to thinking that it would be pretty useful to have tab completion of Grails commands available. At my company, we’ve written about 20 [...]
Glen Smith has been running a great series of posts this month to help people get started with unit testing. In that sprit, I thought I’d put out a post on some unit testing work that I’ve been doing recently.
There are a number of libraries and techniques for unit testing with groovy. It comes with [...]
(3/30/08 I’ve posted an update to this script that fixes the problems noted in the comments)
I’ve been working with Gant recently and wanted the ability to be able to execute a script within the grails context, but not add it as part of a controller or needing to paste it every time in a grails [...]
With Groovy built-in, Grails is one of the best platforms running on the JVM for doing unit testing.
One limitation that it does have is that the current testing scripts seem to be oriented more towards creating test reports rather than giving the user the quick feedback that is helpful when doing Test Driven Development.
Here’s an [...]