Custom User types in GORM

Recently, I wanted to model a Merchant which like many things in a domain model had an Address. I thought…

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Postgres indexes

Recently, I had a situation where I needed to think how I was using Postgres indexes. I had a simple…

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Problems with Cobertura and Sonar 5.1

Recently, I was having some bother trying to use Sonar 5.1 with my Grails 2.4.4 project. I was using the…

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Using separate Postgres Schemas for the same database in a Grails App

Recently, I wanted to use the same Postgres Database but split my persistence layer into separate components which used separate…

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MongoDB and Grails

So recently, I had a requirement to store unstructured JSON data that was coming back from a web service. The…

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Grails tip: refactoring your URLs

On the current project I am working we use a lot of integration tests. For you non-Grails users out there,…

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Groovy Closures: this, owner, delegate let’s make a DSL

Groovy closures are super cool. To fully understand them, I think it’s really important to understand the meaning of this,…

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Good use of Closures

Not long ago, in a blog post, I explained what Closure were in Groovy. This blog post will explain one…

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Closures in Groovy

The simpliest explanation of a closure in Groovy is that it is anonymous function.            …

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