First Thoughts on the New Project

I have been experimenting with STS and Grails 2.0.4 for one week now. The initial idea was to spend two hours a night five nights a week. The first thing I learned is Monday through Thursday spending two hours at something that feels like work is all right. Friday night I didn't feel like it but I thought Sunday night made more sense anyway. Sunday night I didn't feel like it either. So I am not sure if five nights a week is really going to happen.

Quick Hits

• If you want to use Groovy Eclipse in STS don't install STS in the Program Files directory.
• STS is easy to move if you need to, just drop the folder somewhere else.
• H2 has a console and Grails makes it available in the dev environment (grails dev run-app).
• You can add an environment to the STS menu commands using Run > Run Configurations...

STS Run Configurations dialog box.

• Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+G brings up a Grails command prompt.
• When running in dev use  http://localhost:8080/{appname}/dbconsole to get to the console.
• The default JDBC URL is jdbc:h2:mem:devDb and Password is blank.

H2 Console login page.

I did write a very small amount of code. Small amounts of code is one of the reasons I really enjoy Grails. One domain class, scaffold controller with two additional actions, taggable plugin, one template, six lines added to the show view and the result is some jQuery fun.