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Grails has a lot of gems. One of my favorites (besides GORM) is GSP tags -- Grails makes it so easy to create new tags, now there is no reason to write java/groovy code inside GSPs. One of the features about GSP tags that I discovered and used today is that it is possible to invoke a GSP tag as a method call and assign the output of...
When we want to render a view using a template and the template makes use of a model object, the model object needs to be passed to the template using GSP tags. I am writing this because it took me a while to figure this out. Thanks to the wonderful contributors on the mailing list who helped me with this. To render the view to a...
Externalizing properties of an application has really come a long way, especially if you are using Grails. Just want to share as a quick tip how easy it is to externalize the properties in a Grails application. This is what all we have to do in-order to get something from a properties file. In config.groovy include the properties...
In this blog I want to share how can we customize home page while developing a Grails application. In grails, the default homepage is the web-app/index.gsp if we explicitly don`t specify any thing; but of-course that is not sufficient for all apps. We need to have a custom landing page instead of the default page provided by grails. ...
In grails web application development, use of frameworks has become essential . One of those frameworks which help us in making things simpler and life easy is jQuery. Why jQuery ? Fully Documented Great Community Tons of plugins Small size(14kb) Everything works in IE 6+,Firefox,Safari 2+,and Opera 9+ jQquery is a very...
In this blog I want to share how to use table per sub-class instead of table per hierarchy, which is the default mechanism provided by Grails. I am not sure why Grails chose to use "table-per-hierarchy'. I always find it difficult to understand the table structure produced by "table-per-hierarchy". Moreover, it makes things difficult for...
BootStraping is something which is needed in most of the grails application. One of the frequently asked questions (and a valid requirement as well) is : How do you make Bootstraping happen only in a particular environment. This can be done by making use of one of the Grails utility class which allows you to inspect the environment in...
