Grails equivalents to Rails console Book.all, Book.create, etc - grails

Question

I am relatively new to Grails, and want to learn more about how to create some quick mock data while developing my app.
In Ruby on Rails, i can use the console to create new objects, like so:
Book.create{title: "new book", author_id: 2}
And with Rails i can see all like so:
Book.all
What are the grails equivalents for this? I am using Grails 2.0.0

Answer 1

You can use the Grails shell (as Michael alludes to). For example, here I have a test app with a domain class test.Book. In this example, I first load the Grails interactive mode, run the app, then run the shell and test saving and listing a Book entry:
/home/tim/cmdline $ grails
| Enter a script name to run. Use TAB for completion:
grails> run-app
| Compiling 38 source files
| Server running. Browse to http://localhost:8080/cmdline
| Application loaded in interactive mode. Type 'exit' to shutdown.
| Enter a script name to run. Use TAB for completion:
grails> shell
| Packaging Grails application.....
Groovy Shell (1.8.4, JVM: 1.6.0_29)
Type 'help' or '\h' for help.
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groovy:000> new test.Book( title:'Groovy things' ).save()
===> test.Book : 1
groovy:000> test.Book.list()
===> [test.Book : 1]
groovy:000>

Answer 2

If you install the Grails console plugin, and navigate to /console, you can create objects using
new Book(title: "new book").save()
and get a list of all books using
Book.list()

Answer 3

If you are using an in-memory database during development the easiest way to
add testdata is to add code to Bootstrap.groovy that creates and saves
data.
Another option is to use the Grails Console: http://www.grails.org/Command+Line+Tools