Introduction and usage example of Grails Plugin Maven Deployer, a small scripting tool I created. The tool allows you to publish a plugin in a self-hosted maven repo by packaging it as a JAR file.

A Grails plugin to inject the auto-timestamp properties using a configurable, joda-time compatible AST transform that can be used both by a project and by other plugins.

I was playing around with Grails and JSON and came up with a small method to convert a given collection of objects into JSON (typically, domain class objects, but it would work with anything). It’s nothing new or fancy, but maybe usefull for anybody who is starting to explore Grails [...]

In modern versions of Grails, you can use the Groovy annotation EqualsAndHashCode for generating the equals and hashCode methods of your domain classes using an AST transformation, but if you are in any 1.x.x Grails version (that uses a Groovy version prior to 1.8.0), you won’t be able to use [...]

A Grails puppet module made by OSOCO, that allows you to install diferent Grails versions in a puppet node. Has been tested with Debian and Gentoo, so it should work with Ubuntu as well, and has it source code available in Github (so it’s free software).

Android GCM Sender, a webapp that allows you to send configurable push notifications to your Android devices. Developed in Grails using the Grails Android GCM plugin and Ajaxify, and hosted in Heroku.

Sometimes, when your Grails controllers and services relationships get complex and you do bad stuff (even without explicitly doing it! you gotta love all this magic ), Hibernate throws you lovely exceptions like the following (this is one of the most common, but there are more of them): org.hibernate.TransientObjectException: object [...]

Grails Android GCM Plugin: send push notifications to Android devices in your Grails app