Grails : Easy does it
Posted on July 8, 2008
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I have never developed a web application using Grails. I played with it a long time going when Graeme Rocher, the project lead on Grails came to our offices in Poland to talk about TDD. At that time, he was CTO of SkillsMatter, the open source technology training company. At the time, I didn’t get Grails and personally I felt that it was clumsy and just another web framework.
Today, I decided to give it another go. So, here’s what I did:
1. Started my stopwatch.
2. Googled “grails web framework.”
3. Clicked on the second link http://grails.org
4. After downloading grails I followed the installation instructions.
5. Then after reading the quick start details executed three commands
6. grails create-app (I named it javasoup)
7. cd javasoup
8. grails run-app
9. Opened up Firefox
10. Traversed to http://localhost:8080/javasoup
Stop the clock! Okay, 4 minutes 41 seconds is not bad at all for an old guy. From zero to a running web application, which includes reading all that installation stuff and download the zip file. Now, I have to say, that was really an eye opening for me. No problems. No major accidents. I’m still alive.
Then after adding the Groovy and Grails bundles for TextMate, I was done. Well, so I thought until I took one look at the Grails plugin area. Frac! Some people have got too much spare time…
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