Comments on: Developing Grails: setting yourself up

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:11:36 +0000

Thanks Chris. I did a bunch of updates to the article. I realised that the discussion on IDEs was pretty out of date too.

By: chris bedford

chris bedford — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:24:00 +0000

Hi..

One last comment: the git locations and build steps provided in your recipe have gotten a little stale. You might want to point your blog readers to this location which has the new location and the gradle based build instructions.

This more or less worked for me.. I had to go outside the instructions provided.. Once i did that it produced a 1.3.1 grails distro that i could hack on locally.

> http://www.grails.org/Installation

By: Chris Bedford

Chris Bedford — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:09:16 +0000

Hi, Peter:

Great post.. I have been poking into Grails internals and this is going to help me do some experiments.

Your blog readers might get some use out of this article that I recently wrote up on how to set up an IDE (I used IDEA in my example) to debug into Grails and depended-on Spring, etc. sources:

http://buildchimp.com/wordpress/?p=459

best regards
-chris

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By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:18:18 +0000

@Thierry I haven’t used git behind a proxy, but if you do a google search for “git proxy” you’ll find several possible solutions. Whether any of them will work for you, I don’t know. I hope so!

By: Thierry

Thierry — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:35:42 +0000

I may have enough time to contribute, but I’m too often behind a firewall.

The last time I tried GIT through proxy was a failure.
Proxy support has been added ?

By: Rob Fletcher

Rob Fletcher — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:50:07 +0000

Great write-up

One thing I did need to do was to increase heap space allocated to Ant in order to get the tests to run. I used ANT_OPTS=Xmx512m

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:11:05 +0000

@Matt A thorough answer would take too long, but basically it comes down to:

1. You can work much more easily offline with Git than with Subversion.
2. Branching and merging Just Work™ and are actively encouraged with Git.

I love it because you can easily maintain multiple local branches for working on different issues and just switch between them whenever you need to. You can even fix commits after you have made them (but before you push them to the server).

There are other little benefits too, but the main ones are the two above. Subversion benefits from better tool support currently, and a simpler model to understand.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:55:12 +0000

Just out of interest – what benefits do you see to using git over svn. I don’t have any opinions and I’m not trying to start a flame war – just interested in your opinion.

By: Dmitriy Kopylenko

Dmitriy Kopylenko — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:33:37 +0000

@Peter – it’s basically Textile text format automatically transformed into HTML when pushed to Github. So, whatever Textile’s way of inserting images, I guess.