Polyglot Grails
I have been playing around with using different JVM languages in Grails lately. For example, Clojure is really easy to integrate into Grails via the plugin. The simple fact that you can do this in...
View ArticleA Ruby Plugin For Grails
In my previous post, I talked about Polyglot programming in Grails. As I mentioned in that post, there are plugins for Clojure and Scala, but not for Ruby or Python. So, today I thought I would tackle...
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Grails on AWS
I have been using CloudFoundry for my latest Grails demos at work because it’s incredibly easy and fun to use with Grails. This week I decided to deploy an app to Amazon Web Services though. I played...
View ArticleUsing Stripe with Grails
How do you usually process credit cards in your web applications? There are obviously lots of options available and each has pros and cons. One that I am really starting to like though is Stripe. It...
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Using Stripe with Grails Continued
In my last post, I introduced using Stripe with Grails to process credit cards. I guess I should have waited to write that post though because today I made it a lot easier, ha! As of the 1.0.M6...
View ArticleJump Into Grails 2.0
Do you hate reading? Well today is your lucky day because instead of reading a post, you can watch my first ever Grails screen-cast! It’s definitely a little rough around the edges though and you’ll...
View ArticleGetting Groovy with CoffeeScript
Have you used CoffeeScript yet? I just started playing with it and so far I think it’s great! In this screencast, I walk through how to use CoffeeScript in a Grails 2.0 application by building a simple...
View ArticleAnother Adventure with Grails and CoffeeScript
It’s amazing how simple the jQuery libraries make complex front-end development. Then if you add in CoffeeScript, using jQuery is even better! In this screencast, I demonstrate creating a AJAX-enabled...
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Making Money with Grails
What’s more fun that building a Grails website? Building a Grails website that makes money of course, ha! Back in December, I wrote a couple posts about using Stripe with Grails to process credit cards...
View ArticleAdd Some PJAX to Grails
Have you used PJAX yet (PushState + AJAX = PJAX)? It’s a pretty slick way to make AJAX partial updates a lot better compared to the regular g:remoteLink tag. The primary benefits are you don’t break...
View ArticleGR8CONF US Hackathon
As you might have already heard, Target will be hosting a hackathon as part of the GR8CONF US 2013 conference! If you are not aware of GR8CONF US, it’s a technology conference focused on the Groovy...
View ArticleBuilding APIs with Grails
I have been developing some APIs with Grails lately as opposed to traditional web apps. I’m going to be giving a talk at GR8CONF US this summer about this topic too. So, I thought it would be fun to...
View ArticleGrails Asset Pipeline Plugin
This screencast provides an introduction to the Grails Asset-Pipeline plugin for managing and processing static assets like JavaScript and CSS. The Asset-Pipeline plugin is an alternative to the...
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