Is there a way to configure a new Grails installation automatically? We
usually go into the /config page on our Jenkins server and add a Grails
installation there by hand (we use the automatic download feature, but
that's different).
I thought we may be able to programatically add something like the following
to the com.g2one.hudson.grails.GrailsInstallation.xml file:
<com.g2one.hudson.grails.GrailsInstallation>
<name>grails-2.4.3</name>
<home></home>
<properties>
<hudson.tools.InstallSourceProperty>
<installers>
<com.g2one.hudson.grails.GrailsInstaller>
<id>2.4.3</id>
</com.g2one.hudson.grails.GrailsInstaller>
</installers>
</hudson.tools.InstallSourceProperty>
</properties>
</com.g2one.hudson.grails.GrailsInstallation>
Unfortunately, this does not work, even if we tell Jenkins to reload the
configuration from disk.
-Kevin
The simplest way to install grails version automatically, is to use the grails wrapper.
Go to you project and do
grails wrapper
This installs the wrapper to your project. Check this code in. In Jenkins there should be an option to "use grails wrapper"
Hope that helps
Why don't you use the wrapper? It's pretty simple to install and you can control the grails version for your project from the project.
If you update to another version you don't have to go to Jenkins admin to install the new version. Just upgrade your app, install the new grails-wrapper, commit the changes and push them. Jenkins automatically will use the new version.
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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'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've just switched to grails 2.2 and have got a major plugin problem. I've got an application - my-app and a plugin - my-plugin. I want to install spring-security-core plugin into my-plugin, and then install my-plugin into my-app. When I've done this and did s2-quickstart, so that LoginController got created. I can start my-plugin with no problems now, but when I try to start my-app it complains that it cannot find any springsecurity classes. Errors looks like this:
12: unable to resolve class org.springframework.security.web.WebAttributes # line 12, column 1.
7: unable to resolve class org.springframework.security.authentication.AccountExpiredException # line 7, column 1.
11: unable to resolve class org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextHolder # line 11, column 1.
It looks to me, like only my-plugin can see spring security plugin dependencies, and my-app cannot, so they didn't cascade even thought according to manual they should have.
I've also tryed to install spring-security-core plugin by adding in BuildConfig.conf this:
compile ":spring-security-core:1.2.7.3"
but it didn't work either.
Any ideas?
If you use install-plugin in a plugin, it's only installed locally by adding a line in application.properties. It doesn't get exported as a dependency of your plugin. This could be used for plugins like code-coverage where you want to use it during development and testing but not force users to also install it.
In older versions of Grails the dependsOn map in the plugin descriptor was used to express plugin dependencies. This is now deprecated in favor of dependencies registered in the plugins secton of BuildConfig.groovy. This is both for consistency and to take advantage of the more fine-grained features supported by the dependency DSL including specifying scopes and exclusions. This is also true for applications - don't use install-plugin for either apps or plugins, always use BuildConfig.groovy.
Take a look at the spring-security-ldap plugin's BuildConfig.groovy. It has a compile-scope dependency on the core plugin, plus one for the hibernate plugin that's not exported (since it's just for testing) and a build-scope dependency on the release plugin (also not exported since it's just used to release the plugins).
You should probably using a similar dependency on the core plugin in your BuildConfig.groovy. Delete any plugin references in your application.properties and convert to BuildConfig.groovy syntax and run grails clean followed by grails compile.
Thank you Burt for your advice. I've used it and here's what I came to:
I created a plugin-app and installed spring-security-core plugin in it (using DataSource.groovy, and not install plugin). Then I created a main-app and installed my plugin-app (again using DataSource.groovy). When I did this in grails 2.1.1 everything worked just fine - I could use spring-security in my main-app, so the dependency got pulled just right. When I did everything the same, but in grails 2.2 I couldn't use spring-security in my main-app, so dependencies didn't get pulled. That's why I think this might be some kind of a bug in new grails version.
I am working with a (sort of) framework built on top of Grails. This framework is a set of Grails plugins that add functionality to the Grails app (e.g. user authentication). This framework is a bit of a pain to setup, as it requires around 64 lines of site specific configuration in the apps's Config.groovy file.
I want to develop my addons to this app as plugins. That is, the Grails app would really just be a set of installed plugins and some configuration files.
I have created a local Maven style repository to hold all of my plugins. Thus, I can add plugin dependencies to the BuildConfig.groovy file and they will be installed automatically (side question: is it possible to specify the install order?).
So my question is, how do I create skeleton project for developing my plugins that would:
Include the base configuration for my application (the aforementioned 64 lines)
Allow me to do a grails package-plugin to package only the plugin's code
You can use the post-installation hooks mechanism: http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/plugins.html#hookingIntoBuildEvents
Not really an ideal setup for me, but the following works:
Create the "base" application: cd ~/GrailsDev/ && grails create-app my-app
Configure my-app as desired/required
Create your dependent plugin: cd ~/GrailsDev/ && grails create-plugin my-app-plugin
Add the new plugin to the app by editing "~/GrailsDev/my-app/grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy" and appending the line: grails.plugin.location.'my-app-plugin' = "../my-app-plugin"
You can now run the my-app Grails application and the plugin will be included. When your plugin is fully developed, you can do grails package-plugin from within the "~/GrailsDev/my-app-plugin" directory to package your plugin.
use gradle. you can specify the order and package your plugin alone.
e.g. include the required plugins as git modules (for easy versioning) and gradle modules (for building your plugin) in your plugin project.
this setup will serve your requirements well I suppose.
https://github.com/grails/grails-gradle-plugin
IntelliJ does have a template for gradle-backed grails applications and plugins.
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.