Holy Grails, Batman

I’m fortunate enough to be working on three projects at the moment (I perform best when multitasking). One of these projects is ColdFusion-based (CF for life!), the second is rooted in Java and Selenium (test-driven development FTW) and the third project is written in Grails.

I chose the popular Eclipse-based IDE, SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). EClipse/CFEclipse is my preferred IDE for ColdFusion development, and I found the interface to be almost idenfical.

At present I’m bouncing back-and-forth between the book The Definitive Guide to Grails and Grails STS Integration and am really impressed with the language. In particular I like how controllers and unit tests are created in tandem. When creating a controller via the “grails create-controller” command both a controller class and a unit test are created.

I’ll be posting more about Grails in the coming weeks/months. 

Big thanks to long-time friend and fellow ColdFusion (and Grails) developer Mike Copeland for helping me to get my development environment set up and for sending me a good list of Grails developers to follow (Mike, please don’t ever delete that list!).

Shell

My first pet project is “Shell”, a simple O-O ColdFusion Sample Application. I’ve spent about 90 minutes on it at this point (translation: it’s not done), so consider it more of a “sketch” at this point.

Shell – Version 0.0.0.1b (pardon the hokey over-use of the shell metaphor in the code).