Today, I wanted to do some debugging of an ExtJS app that uses Grails. In the past, I would have just copied and pasted the ExtJS source files into my Grails webapp folder. But today, I decided there has to…
Solving Puzzles With Code
A few months back my wonderful wife bought me an awesome “Mensa Puzzle” daily calendar. I love little brain teasers so I was looking forward to tackling one a day to keep the old noggin sharp. Unfortunately, here we are…
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Pwned: CSV export/import with Grails
Yesterday I woke up to face an awful requirement: a site administrator needs the ability to download the contents of just about any table to CSV, edit them, and then re-upload the CSV. Seriously – why’d we bother building an…
Grails CoffeeScript Compiler Plugin
I just wanted to plug (ha ha) a new Grails plugin that I’ve created which compiles CoffeeScript source files into JavaScript files. I created it because the existing CoffeeScript-related plugins didn’t quite do what I needed to do. When working…
Adding All Project Files to a Crucible Review
I use Crucible a lot to manage code reviews. It’s a great tool, allowing you to add files to a review based on a version control revision, range of revisions, or by individual file. However, one baffling omission is the…
Automating Database Migration Scripts
I work on a years-old non-Grails project with a manual database migration procedure. Essentially, all migrations are stored in uniquely named scripts, and when a script is run it’s recorded in a database table, such that we can query the…
Creating a Custom Grails Error Page for Production
The other day I had to go to support.microsoft.com, and I got a raw error page: That made me think that it’d be a good idea to blog how to create a custom error handler in Grails. By “handler,” I…
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On buffers, listeners, and pain
We’re working on an application right now that needs to log a number of events: user login, object deletion, and all sorts of other things that are conveniently dispatched through the Spring application context that’s part of the core of…
Posted in Grails for CFML Developers, Groovy/Grails
Destructured CoffeeScript Method Arguments
A quick post here about something very cool I just learned from the folks at the CoffeeScript Google Group: you can use CoffeeScript’s destructured assignment capabilities on function and method arguments! This is really nice. Say you’re passing an object…
Grails Integration tests and “methodMissing” in plugins
I’m working on a quick internal plugin that has domain models, and I wrote an integration test that did a findAll(). BOOM! Dreading errors about “methodMissing” not helping find all of the model. I forgot something key about plugins: they’re…
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