Tag Archives: grails

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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