Comments on: Grails Startup Pain

By: tip

tip — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:48:53 +0000

U’ve got good pics, the site could use a tiny bit of work (no offense) its still awesome

By: Applications

Applications — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:00:18 +0000

hey…

agree…

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:10:37 +0000

While I agree that Grails can have a little bit of a learning curve, I find that it is easier to learn than Django and Rails if you are already coding and writing code in Java. We’re using IntelliJ in our development and it is much much nicer and has very good Grails integration ( except for maybe auto-completion ). Best of all, adding the project simply involves opening the .project file.

By: Graeme Rocher

Graeme Rocher — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:33:47 +0000

Yeh Eclipse is a problem area for us right now, we are looking for ways to improve our Eclipse support. Btw you should add your blog to http://www.groovyblogs.org

Cheers
Graeme

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:21:16 +0000

Bummer – the docs for Grails shell (http://grails.org/doc/1.0.x/ref/Command%20Line/shell.html) show that you should be able to type several commands and then type ‘go’, but I just tried that and it isn’t working. Glad to hear that you were able to get up and running with Grails console though.

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:40:49 +0000

The grails shell hangs the same way as before:

groovy:000> def t = new Employer(name:”test”, displayName:”test”)

Jeff@RTC ~/work/test
$ def t = new Employer(name:”test”, displayName:”test”)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(‘

By: mike

mike — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:21:01 +0000

There have been some issues noted with the eclipse plugin on the Grails mailing list. I don’t use Eclipse myself, but I think it had something to do with the way the Eclipse plugin compiled the groovy files…anyway, glad to hear it’s working without the import step.

In the shell, try saving the object like this:
def t = new Person(firstName: “Jeff”, lastName:”Smith”)
t.save()

(two lines instead of one)

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:07:22 +0000

Yep, the problem occurs with the import. When I created a new project and tried the above mentioned steps without the import step, it works fine.

Also, using the Bootstrap.groovy to add test data works fine as well.

By console, I meant “grails shell”. When I try to persist an object like this:
def t = new Person(firstName: “Jeff”, lastName:”Smith”).save(), the shell never responds, it just hangs.

I’ve had the same luck with “grails console”. But yes, I’m talking about the grails console/shell, not the groovy console.

Thanks for your questions.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:08:16 +0000

Just curious – do you still get the problem if you skip the step: “import project imported my project into Eclipse.”?

Also, when you try to do the save through the console – did you use “groovyconsole” or “grails console”