The Silicon Valley Groovy / Grails User Group Has Launched !
The Silicon Valley Groovy / Grails User Group is now officially launched. We’re looking for a venue for our monthly meeting now, and would also like to hear from potential speakers. More information is available here. Read the rest of this entry »
Finally Exorcised Windows from my Development Laptop
I’ve done some posting in the past about how nice Cygwin is if you find yourself forced to develop in a Windows environment. Even better than Cygwin is no Windows at all, a state which I finally achieved after my solid state drive crashed and I had to redo my system. As I was going about the task of installing Windows yet again I started asking myself if I really wanted to put up with Read the rest of this entry »
Another Selenium Presentation, With a Little Hudson Thrown In, at the SF Java User Group.
I’ll be doing another presentation (downloadable here) on how to test browser-based web applications using Selenium under Continuous Integration, this time at the San Francisco Java User Group. Read the rest of this entry »
Using Class Level Metadata to Allow Controller Actions to Opt Out of a Filter’s Processing
You will find an instance of the very handy GrailsApplication class injected into filters, plug-ins and other types of Grails components you may need to write. GrailsApplication has a method that allows you to get at the GrailsClass that wraps Grails artefacts, such as domain objects and controllers. Read the rest of this entry »
Use Logging Instead of println When Running Grails Integration Tests In IDEA.
Here’s one for my fellow IDEA users. Have you ever noticed that when you run Grails integration tests within Intellij IDEA that all of the output from println’s ends up in a file called target/test-reports/plain/{name-of-test} ? Read the rest of this entry »
