Category Archives: Groovy

Encryption, Codecs and Unit Tests in Grails

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Geoff Lane

Certain data stored as plain text in a database is just asking for trouble these days. We hear too often about misplaced and stolen computers that contain databases full of Social Security numbers and other information that can lead to … Continue reading →

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Custom Validators in Grails in a Single App

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Geoff Lane

In my previous post I wrote about Building a Custom Validator in Grails using a Plugin. That’s a great way to build a reusable Constraint that will allow you to share your code among multiple projects. But often you only … Continue reading →

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Build a Custom Validator in Grails with a Plugin

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Geoff Lane

Grails is a really nice MVC framework inspired by Ruby on Rails. The difference is that Grails is built using Groovy and Java and leverages existing, well known frameworks as it’s foundation. It is essentially a fairly thin convention-over-configuration and … Continue reading →

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Coffee DSL Redone With Meta-Programming

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Geoff Lane

In a previous post I wrote about DSLs as Jargon. I implemented a simple Coffee DSL that would allow code to parse an order written by a human and turn it into a domain model. I used a fairly basic … Continue reading →

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Coffee DSL in Groovy

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Geoff Lane

I thought I’d follow up with my previous post with the Coffee Domain Specific Language in the Groovy Language. This is really one of my first forays into Groovy, so it’s pretty rough. It’s really just a direct translation of … Continue reading →

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