A large milestone in the Grails lifecycle occurred several weeks ago with the release of version 2.0.0. Grails has very frequent releases; milestones, release candidates, major/minor versions, etc, which is wonderful as the framework grows. The pain point comes in when working on projects that are all using [...]
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The 2.0 release candidate has been . . . released! Whats new? Why do I care? How can I get more productive with the latest releases? How good is eclipse these days? What about STS? Fellow member Jim Mason will present and demonstrate the upcoming features in Grails [...]
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In my earlier test driven-development post for Grails, the critically acclaimed Putting REST in your Tests for Grails (OK, maybe nobody read that except me while proofreading), I discussed an approach for automating integration tests when your Grails application has an external dependency on a web service, which [...]
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Date: July 14th, 2011 Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Location: Cantina, 15 Cypress St., Newton Center, MA 02459 Hosted by: Steve Pember For our next meetup, Burt Beckwith will be giving a talk on Cloud Foundry: “Cloud Foundry is a revolutionary open-source PaaS service from VMware and [...]
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A few weeks ago, several of us here at Cantina were fortunate enough to attend Gr8Conf 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference is focused on 3 major technologies: Groovy, Grails, and Griffon. Cantina is fairly well known as one of the more Grails-savvy consulting firms in Greater Boston, [...]
Read MoreRecently I’ve been grappling with building integration tests for a new Grails plugin that I’m working on that integrates with the Brightcove Media API, which is a mostly REST-ful web service provided by the platform. Details of the API can be found here. The API comes in 2 [...]
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