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Tag Archives: groovy
GR8Conf Overview
Post by Matt Nohr
Aug
3
2012
This week was the United States GR8Conf, and we were lucky enough to have it right here in Minneapolis. GR8Conf is a conference focusing on Groovy and Grails and is held in the US, Europe, and Australia. Refactr was one … Continue reading
Partial Mocks with Spock on Groovy/Grails
Post by Matt Nohr
Jun
15
2012
The Spock testing framework currently does not support partial mocks. It is easy to mock out a class, but not individual methods in a class. In almost all cases, this makes sense to me. If you really only want to … Continue reading
Grails JMX Configuration Using Annotations
Post by Matt Nohr
May
21
2012
I have a grails application that uses the JMX plugin to expose MBeans. The good part is that it automatically exposes some built in MBeans like hibernate and log4j. The bad part is that it exposes too much information for … Continue reading
Testing Closures in Groovy
Post by Scott Vlaminck
Dec
10
2010
I use a lot of closures in Groovy. This often makes my code more expressive and readable – and easier to write. But testing what the closure is doing can sometimes be difficult if the closure isn’t something trivial. To … Continue reading
Call for session organizers: MinneBar ’09
Post by Ben Edwards
Nov
4
2009
We’d love to see some Groovy/Grails/Agile sessions at Minnesota’s barcamp, MinneBar. Jesse, Scott, and I are a bit too harried at the moment to lead too many sessions so we are calling on the community to take the baton. We’d … Continue reading
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Tagged barcamp, community, conference, grails, groovy, Minneapolis, minnebar, Minnesota
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Grails 1.1 is finally here!
Post by Jesse O'Neill-Oine
Mar
10
2009
Today is a big day for everyone interested in Groovy and Grails. Following quickly on the release of Groovy 1.6, today Grails 1.1 has been released. This is a major milestone for the framework and I can’t wait to get … Continue reading
2GX Wrapup
Post by Ben Edwards
Mar
7
2008
Jesse and I have been back from the Groovy/Grails Experience in Reston, Virginia for about a week now and we have had time to digest what we took in. Like most conferences, it was the time between sessions I found … Continue reading
Tonight’s Groovy Users of Minnesota meeting hosted by Refactr
Post by Ben Edwards
Feb
12
2008
If you are interested in learning about Groovy and Grails and would like to see the new Refactr offices, tonight at 6pm is your opportunity to do both. Robert Fischer has offered to present on Spring Builder and Hamlet D’Arcy … Continue reading
Grails: The Clear Java Framework Winner
Post by Ben Edwards
Jan
10
2008
Application Architect for ThoughtWorks, Neal Ford comments on the homebrew (or what he calls craptaculous) framework and what he thinks of Grails as it approaches 1.0: Which suggests a clear new front runner in the Java world: Grails. Because it … Continue reading
Refactr Contributions to Grails and Groovy
Post by Scott Vlaminck
Nov
29
2007
I’ve still been working with Groovy Builders in my free time lately. With quite a bit of help from Andres Almiray to refactor my builder example to use Groovy’s FactoryBuilderSupport, ObjectGraphBuilder was contributed to Groovy core about a month ago. … Continue reading
