Groovy on Grails: a quick start

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In this tutorial I'll show you how to write the basis for a very simple CRM in just 10 minutes.

Really.

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Grails is a quick-developing framework for the Java platform. It includes (almost) everything you need: a web server (called Jetty), a database (HSQLDB), Spring, Hibernate, even a Groovy version of Ant called GANT. You may develop a website with advanced features that take you beyond HTML into the world of Web Services: REST, JSON, Atom, Podcasting, and much much more. Grails uses Groovy has a particular programming language.

• Step 1: download and setup the code

Download the code from http://grails.org/Download (you could even download the quick and pretty Windows installer)

Set GRAILS_HOME (I hope you set JAVA_HOME before, so you know how to do it).

Add GRAILS_HOME/bin to your path (as above...).

If everything is right you could give the "grails" command from your command prompt and read the Grails banner.

• Step 2: the first application (the naked one)

Where do we start? Maybe from the command line, because Grails can build an application with just a command: grails create-app.

The parameter is the name of our application. So let's begin our CRM:

>grails create-app crm

In a few moments we are going to have a special directory tree on the disk.

• Step 3: let's put on some dress

Grails really uses a lot the ModelViewController concept.

• Step 4:

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