Blogs

Hi guys, Recently as part of a project, I had to populate a SQLite database with large amounts of data pertaining to a number of classes requiring more than 5000 inserts and updates per class. I created a new SQLite database using Groovy’s Sql class. The initial strategy involved creating prepared statements and executing individual […]

Data Binding in grails is something that I love alot. In most of the cases we look at the Binding with respect to some domain class but binding can be one of the best candidate for searching and filtration. In my recent project we had a domain Class Article and the user could filter articles […]

Hi all, In the past few days, I was given a push to find a suitable method that allowed us to automate the much needed but  painstaking of creating sprites for webpages to improve their performance.The problem was that going through the process of spriting images was a tedious process for a person not used to […]

Hi guys, Recently on a project, I was creating a number of command objects to accept incoming parameters from a POST call from an iPhone with which I needed to sync data. I created a parent class for all command object classes to accept the common properties and created individual command object classes to accept […]

Most of us have experienced how important the Unit test cases are for our code base. I feel the other thing that is equally important, is the speed at which we can write the unit test cases. In Unit Testing, initializing different objects in setup of the test case (e.g., while testing a method which […]

Hi Folks, Recently I came across a cool way to compare differences between two branches, two tags, or between two commits on Github. Many a times in our project we have to thoroughly see what has been a specific change in the code base before we push it on our production branch. Here is how […]

In our recent grails project, we were about to move to production so we decided to manage the database changes with liquibase. So we generated the changelog from development env by executing the command “grails generate-changelog /home/uday/projects/projectName/grails-app/migrations/changelog.xml” which contained all the table creation changesets. We updated the dbCreate=’none’ in all env. When we ran the […]

HTML5 has made the page designing an easy task. Placeholder is input field improvement in html5. Things that we were doing in past using combination of HTML and client side scripting language can be done in HTML5 using an attribute. One of the example is placeholder attribute used with input type text which automatically puts […]

We were having a crisis on our project the other day. The VPS on which we were running our application had some issues with kernel and Tomcat, for that matter, any java process was running unpredictably. Tomcat would explode the WAR file once in a while and even if it did, it would just pause […]

Hi Friends, I was writing javascript to reload my page with different parameters. So I needed to create the queryString of those parameters but I didn’t want to create it of my own. I already knew about jQuery.serialize() which serializes the form and creates the queryString, but unfortunately I didn’t have form. So that gave […]

Testing was never so easy and intuitive before the use of Spock. Earlier when I was using grails unit testing, it never attracted me to write more and more test cases but with Spock you always keen to test each and every line of your code, testing the exceptions is one of them. You can […]

Grails Schema-export GANT script to generate DDL sql file of the grails project domains.

eg.
grails prod schema-export myProd.sql