Grails

How to apply liquibase change set conditionally

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 […]

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Placeholder in html5

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 […]

Umar
Umar
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Mounting an EBS Volume to an Instance and Soft Linking a Growing Directory to it

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 […]

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JQuery : create URL query string from JSON/Array

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 […]

Grails

Exception Testing using Spock in grails

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

Grails domain class and DDL sql file using schema-export

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

eg.
grails prod schema-export myProd.sql

Grails

A use case of Bitwise AND

Recently, I used bitwise Anding in my grails project. I am sharing the approach that we followed by means of an example. Suppose we have a domain class Person which can have multiple attributes like Smart, Intelligent, Talkative etc. What sort of relationship comes to our mind when we see this? I believe the obvious […]

Mohd Farid
Mohd Farid
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Groovy: Few ways to convert string into enum

Many at times, we have a string which needs to be converted into Enum. I will be sharing few options as stated by Mr.Haki, Isa Goksu and in the last the one I discovered during the process. Lets say we have a Enum AccountType as given below : [groovy] enum AccountType { CHECKING, SAVING } assert […]

Amit Jain
Amit Jain
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Grails fixture, a great way to bootstrap your data

In my current project, I was given a task to bootstrap some data for our application. Initially I was thinking of doing it in the old fashion way, that is, writing a full blown CREATE data code for data creation like [java] Book myBook=new Book(name:’MyBook’, publication:’lorem’,price:’200′) Author author1=new Author(name:’Partho’,country:’India’) author.addToBooks(myBook) [/java] and so on. But […]