Posts Tagged groovy

Hidden Danger of Grails Plugins

As a new developer to Grails you’re probably in awe over the vast number of very powerful plugins which are available to you. Without writing a single line of your own code you can do all sorts of cool things like interact with Twitter, Facebook, Amazon’s S3 storage system, Apple Push notifications, Spring Security, and [...]

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Grails Domain Mocking Limitations

So, I just threw out most of this morning trying to figure out why something which clearly should work was blowing up my unit test on a grails app. To spare you the same pain I’m documenting it here. The scenario is that I have Roles and Privileges as domain classes. A role has many [...]

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Modularizing your Grails Application – Domain Classes

This is the second installment of my What Grooves You? series of posts, this time discussing how to modularize your Grails application. While Grails does an awesome job of enforcing MVC once your application reaches a certain size, or you have multiple applications which may have shared components, you’re going to have to start thinking [...]

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Fitting Grails in an Active Directory and NTLM SSO Groove

This is my first installment in the What Grooves You? series of posts, and it deals with the first thing you’re going to need to consider if you are deploying your Grails/Groovy applications in the average corporate IT infrastructure, Single Sign On with Active Directory and NTLM. Like it or not, because all of our [...]

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What Grooves You?

In my "Day Job", we design and build our applications using Microsoft technologies. In particular, we’re using C#, Silverlight, and IIS to build and deploy our web applications. This makes good sense because the vendors we use are well versed in the Microsoft technology, and like the IT infrastructure of a lot of medium and [...]

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