grails bootstrap error writing to mysql - grails

Question

I'm using spring security within a simple app. The app runs fine locally when connecting to amazon RDS instance. When I upload my app to elastic beanstalk the creation of a role fails in Bootstrap:
def init = { servletContext ->
println log.name
log.debug("hello 1")
def adminRole = new Role(authority: 'ROLE_ADMIN')
log.debug("hello 2")
if (!adminRole.save(flush: true, failOnError: true)) {
log.debug("hello 3")
adminRole.errors.each {
println it
log.error(it)
}
}
2013-12-17 23:25:33,311 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR context.GrailsContextLoader - Error initializing the application: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: com.nrfa.Role.save() is applicable for argument types: () values: []
Possible solutions: save(), save(boolean), save(java.util.Map), wait(), last(), any()
org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: com.nrfa.Role.save() is applicable for argument types: () values: []
Possible solutions: save(), save(boolean), save(java.util.Map), wait(), last(), any()
at grails.util.Environment.evaluateEnvironmentSpecificBlock(Environment.java:308)
at grails.util.Environment.executeForEnvironment(Environment.java:301)
at grails.util.Environment.executeForCurrentEnvironment(Environment.java:277)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
Caused by: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: com.nrfa.Role.save() is applicable for argument types: () values: []
Possible solutions: save(), save(boolean), save(java.util.Map), wait(), last(), any()
at BootStrap$_closure1.doCall(BootStrap.groovy:15)
... 9 more
If it were a database connectivity issue - which it may be - I would have thought the error would have been 'hey, can't connect to the database'. Not the non-descriptive error of can't find Role.save().
EDIT:
Full bootstrap:
import com.nrfa.Role
import com.nrfa.User
import com.nrfa.UserRole
class BootStrap {
def springSecurityService
def init = { servletContext ->
println log.name
log.debug("hello 1")
def adminRole = new Role(authority: 'ROLE_ADMIN')
log.debug("hello 2")
if (!adminRole.save(flush: true, failOnError: true)) {
log.debug("hello 3")
adminRole.errors.each {
println it
log.error(it)
}
}
log.debug("hello 4")
def userRole = new Role(authority: 'ROLE_USER').save(flush: true, failOnError: true)
def testUser = new User(username: 'me', password: 'password')
testUser.save(flush: true, failOnError: true)
UserRole.create testUser, userRole, true
assert User.count() == 1
assert Role.count() == 2
assert UserRole.count() == 1
}
def destroy = {
}
}
EDIT: Include BuildConfig.Groovy:
dependencies {
// specify dependencies here under either 'build', 'compile', 'runtime', 'test' or 'provided' scopes e.g.
//runtime 'mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.27'
runtime 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.5'
}
plugins {
build ":hibernate:$grailsVersion"
runtime ":jquery:1.8.3"
runtime ":resources:1.2"
runtime ":mysql-connectorj:5.1.22.1"
compile ':spring-security-core:2.0-RC2'
// Uncomment these (or add new ones) to enable additional resources capabilities
//runtime ":zipped-resources:1.0"
//runtime ":cached-resources:1.0"
//runtime ":yui-minify-resources:0.1.5"
build ":tomcat:$grailsVersion"
build ":database-migration:1.3.2"
compile ':cache:1.0.1'
// runtime ":mysql-connectorj:5.1.22.1"
}

Answer 1

That error is usually indicative of the hibernate plugin not being installed or working. Can you see the expanded war on the remote server? I'm not familiar with the workings of beanstalk itself so maybe something is in conflict there.

Answer 2

Adding "runtime 'mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.27'" in dependencies and remove it from plugins?