The Grails Redis plugin lets you use Redis as a store for all kinds of data. I find it especially useful as a compliment to a primary datastore. I use Redis for it’s caching and set operation strengths and let … Continued
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Fixing Grails Tests That Pass in Isolation but Fail When Run as a Suite
If you’ve got a test that passes when run by itself but fails when run with the rest of the tests in your test suite, you’ve almost definitely got a test pollution problem. Test pollution happens when the results of … Continued
Upgrading to Grails 2 Unit Testing
Grails 2 has a lot of great new unit testing features that make many test scenarios easier. The grails documentation does an OK job of describing some of the new features, but there really wasn’t anywhere that I could find … Continued
Quick Shell Function to Bootstrap a Gradle Groovy Project
Gradle is a great build tool. It’s easy to download and install. If you’re on a mac and have homebrew, it’s as easy as: brew install gradle It’s very easy to use with a little experience, but I find having … Continued
Speed up your Grails / Spring Security Development with an Auto Login Bookmarklet
When you’re doing dev on your website, how often do you log in with the same username and password? I bet it’s 20+ of times a day when you’re actively developing. Having to log in manually impedes development speed. If … Continued