Comments on: Bash/Zsh aliases to switch Groovy and Grails version

By: Smart Bash/Zsh Aliases to Run Appropriate Grails Version - Ted Naleid

Smart Bash/Zsh Aliases to Run Appropriate Grails Version - Ted Naleid — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:46:43 +0000

[...] of different apps that are using different versions of grails that need to be run concurrently. Switching a symlink no longer fit the way I needed to work so I came up with a couple bash/zsh aliases that are smart [...]

By: Vladimir Grichina

Vladimir Grichina — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:43:17 +0000

Forgot to include link into previous comment – http://www.componentix.com/blog/16

By: Vladimir Grichina

Vladimir Grichina — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:42:55 +0000

Provided updated version of script with ability to do “create-app”, “upgrade”, etc, given you specify version to use explicitly.

By: Vladimir Grichina

Vladimir Grichina — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:02:28 +0000

Yep, Ted, there are issues you mention. I think I’ll make updated script to take them into account.

In the meanwhile, there is a post of another developer from my team which describes the script for Windows which takes these things into account. May be useful for someone – http://www.componentix.com/blog/12

By: tednaleid

tednaleid — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:48:21 +0000

That’s interesting Vladimir, thanks for the link. I like the ability to figure out the grails version using the application.properties.

One potential issue I can think of with it is that you have to be at the root of an app for it to work (so ‘grails run-app’ wouldn’t work, or would be hard coded to some default value). You also wouldn’t be able to do an “upgrade” to the latest version on an old app as it’d always pick the old version.

By: Vladimir Grichina

Vladimir Grichina — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:53:15 +0000

Maybe you would be interested, I had the similar problem, but other approach (more automated, based on application.properties), described it in my blog:

http://www.componentix.com/blog/10

By: Alexander Chernyakevich

Alexander Chernyakevich — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:50:41 +0000

Thank you for helpful hint for Linux OS. I have found that somebody have to switch often between different versions of Grails as we. ;)

But we generally works under Windows OS. So I created some tricky batch script for similar purposes. See http://achernyakevich.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-switch-grails-environment-under.html in my blog.

By: Colin Harrington

Colin Harrington — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:25:33 +0000

Ted,

Thank you for sharing your command-line kung fu.
I love how easy it is to add Grails 1.1:

alias g11=’switchGrails “groovy-1.6.0″ “grails-1.1″‘

Just out of curiosity what other grails command line tricks do you have up your sleeve?

Here are some of my aliases:
alias g=”grails”
alias gra=”grails run-app”
alias grad=”grails-debug run-app”
alias gta=”grails test-app”
alias gtad=”grails-debug test-app”

By: andhapp

andhapp — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:31:08 +0000

Nice… I have been thinking about upgrading the groovy and grails and this script but be so much helpful in switching back and forth in case the upgrade does not go well.