Error running grails application - grails

I have a grails application in 1.3.7 but on running the application it shows following message:
| 'Application expects grails version [1.3.7], but GRAILS_HOME is version [2.1.0] - use the correct Grails version or run 'grails upgrade' if this Grails version is newer than the version your application expects'.
If i type ${GRAILS_HOME} it is pointing to 1.3.7,It means grails home is already pointing to 1.3.7 .
I am also using 2.0.1 for other applications.
Any suggestions ?????

Your PATH environment variable is most likely picking up grails 2.1.0. If you are on unix type which grails to find out which grails dir is in your path.

I think so, you have two grails versions, but one or the two versions is in system path, and was you run, is running a version different of the GRAILS_HOME, you should have only one in path and in GRAILS_HOME, and shold has the same version.

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Unable to use Grails 3.0.9 version

I am working on Windows. I am trying to use Grails 3.0.9 version. Previously, I used Grails 2.4.2, everything worked well.
After Downloading and setting windows environment for 3.0.9 of Grails, I typed 'grails help' or 'grails create-app test' on Windows cmd.
It always tell 'Error: Could not find or load main class org.codehaus.groovy.grails.cli.support.GrailsStarter'
Then I try to use 3.0.8, it told the same error. But if I switch to use 2.4.2, it works normally.
Ps. On Grails 3.0.9, I use jdk1.8.0_65.
What I did wrong or what I missed for setting for a new version of Grails.
Thanks.
I Had exactly the same problem. You could try that:
Open a new CMD window and print your variables (PATH, GRAILS_HOME) if set.
Sometimes my variables still referenced my Grails 2.3.7 library and not 3.0.8 which I wanted to use.
That was happening on Windows 10 to me. After a few restarts from CMD all went well. Maybe System variables are somehow cached and not set immediately.
I would recommend using gvm on windows, its a tool to install, switch grails very quickly using windows powershell
its now called sdkman http://sdkman.io/
if your installing on mac or or unix like os
https://github.com/flofreud/posh-gvm has a good tutorial on installing for windows
gvm install grails 3.0.9 , you can set it as the default by saying yes at the end or
gvm use grails 3.0.9
gvm list grails to see what other versions of grails are available to install.
then type grails -version to see what version is installed and test out grails
your grails create-app should then work

Grails run-app 'Application metadata not found'

I downloaded a serverpush example called GrailsChat and trying to run is on grails 2.4.4.
I had some issues with dependencies missing that took me a while to figure out (don't think it's related but just mentioning it).
When I run grails run-app I get:
| Application metadata not found, please run: grails upgrade
When I run grails upgrade I get
| Script 'Upgrade' not found, did you mean:
1) MigrateDocs
2) IntegrateWith
3) SetGrailsVersion
4) InstallDependency
5) DependencyReport
> Please make a selection or enter Q to quit:
I figure the issue is probably to do with the grails version I have being newer than the grails version that the sample app was targetting but I don't want to move back version simply to run an example (I'd rather understand the underlying issue).
Can anyone point me to some documentation that will help me understand what the application metadata is and how to move forward please?
Grails Upgrade command is removed in 2.4. You might have to upgrade the app manually following the guide.
Or you can just run the service wrapper which will download the grails version automatically base on the app.
./grailsw run-app
It seems like you have missed any one of mentioned
Not set grails proper Version
Missing application.properties file (with proper grails version)

ggts null pointer "Retrieving available scripts"

I installed a fresh copy of GGTS on a fresh copy of windows 8 with JDK 1.7 installed.
I tried to get it to compile my existing project which was based on 2.3.6 and it failed miserably as GGTS comes with grails 2.4.2.
I know serveral people who had problems with 2.4.x so decided to stick with 2.3.
So I downloaded 2.3.11 (latest 2.3) and created a GRAILS_HOME pointing to 2.3.11 dir, and JAVA_HOME pointing to the root of the JDK.
On command line, I can now type grails - version and get back 2.3.11.
I restarted GGTS, and deleted the project and createde it again, adding 2.3.11 as a new Grails version, and set the project to use that.
It fails to compile, saying version is wrong. Fair enough. But when I try to launch the command line from GGTS using the gree circular button at the top which looks like 3 cups, it says:
Retrieving available scripts
Retrieving available scripts
An internal error occurred during: "Retrieving available scripts".
java.lang.NullPointerException
Any ideas?
In my case the problem was, that I had moved grails to a different folder. I just had to change the location of grails in the settings. Hope that helps somebody.
check all grails-project's 'app.grails.version' in application.properties, then open window - preferences - groovy -grails, make sure that all VERSIONs were defined ( I use sts, maybe a little difference ).
alternatively
update all application.properties set app.grails.version=2.3.11 ( the version your ggts defined )
Check if your environment variable of GRAILS_HOME is set to the right version of Grails.
I ran into this same issue, and the problem was caused by the Grails installation it was trying to use. It wanted to use the default version that comes with GGTS rather than the one I installed myself.
To fix, go to Window > Preferences > Groovy > Grails, then "Edit" the Grails installation it shows. I had to switch mine from C:\ggts-bundle\grails-2.4.4\ to C:\grails-2.4.2\.

how to find your project current versions in grails

I want to know the versions of the software used while developing the project, Suppose If there is an existing project In grails ,so I want to know the version of grails as well as version of Groovy for that project
Metadata regarding a project in Grails is kept in application.properties.
Within this file you will find the version of Grails used for the project under the key app.grails.version.
The version of Groovy used however is not kept in this file and is determined by the version of Grails being used. To determine the version of Groovy used by a specific version of Grails visit the introduction section of the Grails documentation.
edit
As pointed out in another answer, if you have target version of Grails already downloaded you can search for the version of Groovy being used by that version of Grails.
*nix
$ cd grails-X.X.X
$ find . -name "groovy*jar"
win32
> cd grails-x.x.x
> dir /s "groovy*.jar"
From controllers/services:
def appVersion=Metadata.current.'app.grails.version'
def appName=Metadata.current.'app.name'
From gsp:
App Version <g:meta name="app.version"/>
Built with Grails <g:meta name="app.grails.version"/>
Added extra information to figure out a grails application version from raw text files :
If you have a grails 3 application, you should find a build.gradle in the main root of your application folder:
version "0.1" According to this grails 3 project the version of this application is 0.1
Grails version is 3.1.1 according to gradle.properties
On a grails 2 project you will find application.properties in the main project root:
According to this grails 2 project
grails version is 2.4.4
App version is 0.1
If you already have a project and want to learn which grails version it uses. You can find it in gradle.properties file.
The content of the file is like the following
grailsVersion=4.0.1
gorm.version=7.0.2.RELEASE
As of Grails 3, this is:
Version <g:meta name="info.app.version"/>
Notice the info.
http://docs.grails.org/3.0.17/ref/Tags/meta.html
use application.properties in the root of the grails application
To find out which version of groovy is used with particular version of grails I always use simple find:
$ cd grails-X.X.X
$ find . -name "groovy*jar"
Maybe I'm just too lazy to dig into websites... ;-)
You can see application name,grails version,application version from application.properties file of grails project
I face the same issue, I found simplest way to find version by simple command.
run
grails clean
then it prints
Welcome to Grails 1.3.7 - http://grails.org/

Error in Grails

Anyone knows how to fix this ?
It works fine on my env (Me being the developer) and doesn't work on my colleagues machine who unzips the whole
Welcome to Grails null - http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: C:\abc\products\grails-1.1
Base Directory: C:\abc\products\foo\bar
Running script C:\abc\products\grails-1.1\scripts\RunApp.groovy
Environment set to development
Application expects grails version [1.1], but GRAILS_HOME is version [null] - us
e the correct Grails version or run 'grails upgrade' if this Grails version is n
ewer than the version your application expects.
Some clarifications
1) There has been no Grails version change , either on my machine or my colleagues machine. In fact some of them are installing for the first time
2) Under C:\Documents and Settings\myfriend.grails I can see a folder called 'null'
I tried removing this folder - but it gets created he runs my application
3) The way I am giving him the release is- I unzip the whole folder and he unzips it
SO there are three steps
A_ grails create-app to create the APp
B_ Unzip my folder to replace the generated folder
C_ Grails run-app
Things are fine after the step A- but degenerate after Step C
It appears that his Grails installation is corrupted or not set up correctly. I would have him reinstall a fresh copy of Grails - http://www.grails.org/Installation and try again.
The error that you are getting is telling us that the application that you are trying to run is identified as version 1.1 and I assume that this is correct. The fact that Grails is not able to identify what version is installed makes me point to a corrupted or mis-configured Grails installation
If he types 'grails' at the command line what does he see?
I found the problem.
This was because I had added a file- build.properties
And since the file was there- it was expecting it to have certain properties defined in it
Once I renamed it to something else- it started to work

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