Grails 3.1.9 Functional Test Port
With Grails 3.1.9 and above we now get a default port for Functional tests that is randomly assigned. This is a great feature that was added in with this com...
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Grails 3 Metrics and Path Variables
Grails 3 is built on top of SpringBoot on of the key components of SpringBoot is Actuator. Actuator sets up Metrics and healthchecks all the things modern se...
Grails 3 and JaCoCo
Now that we have Gradle as our build system we have a whole range of plugins we can use directly in Gradle. For code coverage I am using the JaCoCo plugin. T...
Grails 3 and Spring Java Config
The Spring Java config is a great way to work with Spring configuration. It feels similar to Google Guice, which I personally enjoy. Mr. Haki did a great wri...
SpringSecurity Impersonate Users Custom Roles
The Grails SpringSecurity plugin has the ability to allow user impersonation which is a really great tool for support. But many times it makes sense to allow...
Grails Integration Testing of Complex Transactions
Integration testing complex transactions in grails can be tricky due to the default behavior of wrapping integration tests in transactions and rolling them b...
Memcached Tomcat Sessions and Grails App Info Plugin
The App Info Plugin for Grails is a great tool. We use it in most of our Grails deployments. One of the great features offered is the ability to view all cur...
Grails New Relic Detailed Tracing
New Relic with Grails by default will trace most web transactions through the controller but will not trace down into services. While most true work of a req...
Grails 2.3.1 Warnings after clean.
If you are running grails 2.3.1 and see the following sequence pop up before you get some odd test failures. $ grails clean | Application cleaned. ...
Grails 2.3 RC1 and JMS Plugin
Using the JMS 1.2 plugin with Grails 2.3.0.RC1 was producing a number of odd results. Mostly with missing JMS files it turns out that the new spring version ...
Grails Custom UserDetailsService using a Grails Service
Using the Grails Spring Security Core Plugin I found the need to customize the UserDetailsService and use a Grails service. (Part of the roles logic depended...
SAML Matching Endpoints with Tomcat
Getting, SAML message intended destination endpoint did not match recipient endpoint, errors mean the server itself dosen’t match the urls being given in the...
Grails Display the Current Spring Security Filter Chain
While working with Grails and the Spring Security plugin, the current spring security filter chain is available in the springSecurityFilterChain bean. It is ...
Grails Release Plugin External Maven Config
The grails release plugin is great for publishing plugins to grails central but it will also publish a plugin to a maven repo. You simple need to configure t...