This is a fantastic piece of analysis and absolutely on target. There is a whole economy of commercial products and government projects that are based on open source, but in many cases there is little support given back to the project.

nderground is constructed using Grails. Grails allows people developing complex web…

Right now, our Manager main app is indeed a single Grails app that combines the AngularJS front-end and core REST APIs back-end (authentication, account management, etc.).

During development, we use Grunt and Bower to manage Angular assets which are served by Grails assets pipeline when run locally. Then for production…

Agrupando valores em um Map com [:].withDefault e groupBy

Com o [:].withDefault podemos criar mapas com valores padrão que ainda não estão no mapa, mas esse não é o caso da nossa postagem ☺

Imagine que você tenha uma classe Aluno e que essa classe possua várias notas, imagine também que uma…

Grails 3.1.0 Unit Testing With RestBuilder

After the recent upgrade to Grails 3.1.0 we discovered that we were unable to run any unit tests that were previously testing services that used RestBuilder. Previously we were simply using metaClass behaviour to override the post, get, etc methods…

Grails GSON Views & RestfulController

With the introduction of the new statically compiled gson views in grails 3.x there was an awesome synergy created with the existing RestfulController and these customizable json renderers. Out of the box these render json substantially fast and give a huge range…

Grails 3 Hibernate Interceptor

Recently we underwent some performance pain points with transactions in grails 3. After some investigation it became apparent that the default transactional behavior in grails services post 3.1 wasn’t actually disabled by default as per the docs here.