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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Using database views in Grails

This post is a quick explanation on how to use database views in Grails. For an introduction I tried to…

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Grails: Using Hibernate Filters

The Grails Hibernate Filters plugin makes it possible to use Hibernate Filters with GORM. Hibernate Filters provide additional restriction rules…

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Automatically converting password hashes in Grails spring-security-core

I was looking at this Stack Overflow question about converting password hashes and realized that it’s possible and rather convenient…

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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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Getting Started with method security in Grails using Spring Security

This blog post will be about implementing method level security with security expressions in Grails using the Spring Security plugins.…

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