Grails Goodness: Extending IntegrateWith Command

We can extend the integrate-with command in Grails to generate files for a custom IDE or build system. We must…

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Coloring Different Data Sources in IntelliJ IDEA

The database plugin in IntelliJ IDEA is a useful tool to work with data in databases. As long as we…

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Groovy Goodness: Closure as Writable

In a previous post we learned about the Writable interface and how the GString implementation implements this interface. In Groovy…

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Grails Goodness: Using Groovy SQL

In a previous post we learned how we can use Hibernate native SQL queries in our Grails application. We can…

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Grails Goodness: Customize Root Element Name Collections for XML Marshalling

When we convert a List or Set to XML using the Grails XML marshalling support the name of the root…

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Grails Goodness: Cleaning Up

When we use for example the compile or war command Grails will create files and stores them by default in…

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Grails Goodness: Generating Raw Output with Raw Codec

Since Grails 2.3 all ${} expression output is automatically escaped on GSPs. This is very useful, because user input is…

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Grails Goodness: Namespace Support for Controllers

In a Grails application we can organize our controllers into packages, but if we use the same name for multiple…

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Grails Goodness: Unit Testing Render Templates from Controller

In a previous blog post we learned how we can unit test a template or view independently. But what if…

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