Back to basics — A simple beginning to Grails

I guess I can finally finish my search for a good server side companion (at least for now).  A couple years ago RIFE was my only choice but unfortunately, it didn’t work out well as I expected (RIFE is an open source project but partly because of developers like me  who uses the framework but doesn’t pay his gratitude by adding sth to it, RIFE for the time being a dead project (at least for me!))

Anyway, for some time I consider turn back to good old J2EE, then wander on the land of some other Java enterprise frameworks (Spring MVC, Wicket, Struts 2, Hibernate etc ) then Google App engine Java with its in progress full stack framework like environment. Then I decide that all the ones mentioned above has steep learning curves and without feeling complely comfortable with them, It is imposible to develop sth quickly.

Then the obvious direction was rails. First give a try to Django, then read some about  RoR but both of them somehow scare me out. I need to learn a new language (which Django tutorial specificly warns about looking a good python tutorial before devlde into Django), on the other hand, Grails (my love!) just start the sentence with “don’t worry about the groovy, you can learn it along the way”.

Obviously, Grails is relatively new compared to two other alternative and it has (or used to have) to many bugs for a relaible product.

But trust me, it is easy to just start and kick the first alfa version of sth out is a joy.

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Ok this post is suppose to be a yet another introduction to Grails tutorial, so…

Steps to Get Started

1.  install Grails (there is nothing I can add here — http://www.grails.org/Installation)

2. open command line and create a project with grails create-app Yeap

3. Go to the created directory cd Yeap

4. Type grails run-app

That’s it!

I’m currently using Apache Shiro plugin (previously JSecurity), Gwt plugin, Postgresql, Eclipse for the development, More posts related to these will be here soon (I hope)