when I create new project in IntelliJ on the left Grails is missing,I think there was some kiind of plugins/tools to install Grails on IntelliJ and then it will show up but where is it?
In order to have the grails in you project, you should check that the grails is included in your build.gradle file.
These are the main lines for basic building of the Grails framework.(There are other extensions you can add).
apply plugin: "org.grails.grails-web"
apply plugin: "org.grails.grails-gsp"
grails {
grailsVersion = '3.1.10'
}
dependencies {
compile "org.grails:grails-core:$grailsVersion"
}
After adding those lines you should close the IntelliJ Idea and open it using the build.gradle file.
Then you should see the grails-app [main] directory.
Intellij (I am using version 2016.2.5) does not support the Grails view (on the left side of screen) for Grails 3.x projects. Hopefully in they will add this again for 3.x project I also miss that on the new projects.
EDITED: Intellij 2016.3.0 now says that Grails View is back for Grails 3.x
Support for Grails exists in the Ultimate edition of IntelliJ IDEA. Since Grails is just a Gradle project, the Community version recognizes this, but you will not get code highlighting for things such a GSPs, intellisense and other features.
More information can on the differences can be found on their site: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html
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I just installed intellij community 2016.2.5 in mac, and tried to create a grails project. It does not show grails as an option, but shows Groovy, Gradle, Griffin.
I went to the intellij grails page and it says:
Also, make sure that the Grails plugin is enabled in IntelliJ IDEA. The plugin is bundled with IntelliJ IDEA and is activated by default
Then, I tried to enable the plugin, or find in repositories, but didn't find any, only a Grails Tools, that is not from jetbrains, and after a install and restart, still don't show anything.
Anyone has used this lastest version with Grails? Has any solution or workaround to make it works? Should I download some older version?
Thanks.
Here is how I import a Grails 3 app into community edition:
First use SDKMAN to get grails - http://sdkman.io/install.html
sdk use grails 3.2.1
grails create-app mytestapp
Then import existing project, select the build.gradle file
Check Use Auto Import
Use gradle wrapper
You can run it by using the bootRun gradle task in the gradle toolbar or going to the Application.groovy file and running the main() method.
To see some of the run configs in action you can watch https://www.ociweb.com/products/grails/grails-quickcast-6-developing-grails-3-applications-with-intellij-idea/ - Though I would recomend running gradle from inside intellij, not via the command line. That was just to show how remote debugging works.
With community you lose some features, but it does work well.
I'm porting an application from Grails 2.4.2 to Grails 3.0.4, and I'm having problems with some plugins that were installed previously. Specifically one that is referenced in a GSP page. The particular plugin is called google-visualizer, and I've found some info here:
https://github.com/bmuschko/grails-google-visualization/blob/master/grails-app/views/formatter/index.gsp
However, I am clueless as to how to install this. I have not found the particular jar file in any maven repo, so I can't add it as a Gradle dependency. In general, where is it documented how to install existing plugins in Grails 3.X? I've read the documentation on how to port existing plugins, but that's not what I'm trying to do. I simply want to tell Grails/Gradle that I'd like to use this particular plugin and have it resolve the dependencies for me. I've tried this syntax as shown here:
https://grails.org/plugins/tag/grails3
Example:
compile ":quartz:1.0.2"
I've put that line in the dependencies block in my build.gradle file, but it doesn't work. I get errors from Gradle. Is there a particular Maven repo that has to be added for plugins? Any help with this is appreciated. Thanks.
Grails 1.x and 2.x plugins are sadly not compatible with Grails 3.x.
You can find the plugins that already have been ported to Grails 3 at: https://bintray.com/grails/plugins/
The grails-google-visualization plugin is not released in a Grails 3 version, but from the repo, it appears that work has started on upgrading.
You can see the progress on a Grails 3 version in this issue: https://github.com/bmuschko/grails-google-visualization/issues/49
Benjamin searched for a new maintainer back some time ago, and found a volunteer - see this tread for details: https://twitter.com/bmuschko/status/498610606896066560
For those plugins that are most important, the Grails Core team maintains a list here: https://github.com/grails/grails-core/wiki/Grails-3-Priority-Upgrade-Plugins
Some of the old plugins will be replaced by their Gradle counterpart, fx. the codenarc plugin, that exist in a Gradle version already.
A simple way is to find out the JAR file for the plugin and then use them in Grails 3.0.4. In this way there is no need to change the source code of the plugin
I've been unable to create/import a Grails 2.4.3 project with IntelliJ 13.1.4. For example, when I create a new module, choose Grails, then click the create button (highlighted below) and choose the location where Grails 2.4.3 is installed, the project is not created correctly (I get a module with just a /src directory instead of a Grails project) and Grails 2.4.3 is not added to the list of Global Libraries. I don't have this problem with any earlier version of Grails.
I have used Grails 2.4.2 with Intellij 13.1.4 successfully. What I did is create the application with the grails create-app command and then do a File / Import Project in Intellij. Give that a try.
As an alternative solution to the IntelliJ 13.1.4 and Grails 2.4.3 bug you can:
grails create app <app-name>
cd app-name
grails integrate-with --intellij
This configured the project correctly for me with just minor tweaks to SDK and application server. This is a minor twist on the work around described above.
See grails doc here
I had the same problem with IntelliJ 13.1.4 and Grails 2.4.3, which i just downloaded.
After using the grails create-app command from the command line i had to import the project, by "create from existing sources" (point to the new top level folder), "Configure SDK" (to set for the Grails 2.4.3) and finally edit the run configuration. In a second test run with a new test project i did not have too configure the run config.
Then the Grails libs for the were downloaded and the basic app ran. Also the Grails specific option in the Intellij "Tools2 section were suddenly available.
So the given answer by Joe is the way to setup a new Grails project but the IDE should be fixed anyways.
It is not consistent. After several tries I can get some applications to work but it does not seem to be automatic. I think I am going to go back to Grails 2.4.2 until this is resolved within Intellij 13.1.4.
In the screenshot above, there are options for groovy/grails/griffon, and so far the alternative offered was command-line. Try choosing groovy option within intelliJ.
We are using IDEA 13.1.4 with grails 1.3.7 and grails 2.2.1(diff projects) and saw the same issue. It appears this is an intelliJ issue and not so much the grails version, so reverting your grails won't gain you anything. Choosing groovy, you should see a prompt for grails directory structure. This does work if you are presented with this option. Seeing inconsistencies here. Thanks to all for posting your workarounds; never hurts to have multiple approaches.
-Duane
I installed Spring Security Core plugin for my Grails project and it works just fine. The problem is that I can't locate the actual plugin files. I can't find any of my projects inside .grails/2.4.2/projects where according to my understanding Grails is suppose to store all the plugins. The directors exists but there are no projects in this folder.If I want to edit grails.plugin.springsecurity.LoginController where do I go to find this controller? I am on OS X 10.9.3
By default the plugins are in .grails/<version>/<project>/plugins. You can change it by setting grails.project.plugins.dir (setting it to 'plugins' will create a plugins folder in your project source directory) in BuildConfig.groovy.
then copy the LoginController to your own source tree (to the same location) to override and edit the plugin version.
Just in case someone else runs into this.
In 2.4.4 you would put the theme into
/<project>/target/work/plugins/jquery-ui-<version>/web-app/jquery-ui/themes/<themename>/
Is there any way to get IDEA to automatically download sources for Grails, my plugins and all the dependencies? Alternately, is there an easy way to get IDEA to pickup sources downloaded by this plugin?
http://www.grails.org/plugin/eclipse-scripts
It puts them under ~/.ivy2/...
IDEA should automatically load all plugins for a Grails project, if the Grails/Griffon plugin is being used.
I see all the Grails plugins for a given project in my Grails View, under Plugins.
If you aren't seeing the files, try right-clicking on the project's name in the Grails View, and choosing Grails > Synchronize Grails settings.
Please note that if you are using the free (community) version of IntelliJ IDEA, it does not include the necessary plugins for working with Grails directly. You must pay for the full version to get it.