Groovy Weekly #30

The new Groovy website announced last week keeps on improving, thanks to your feedback and already many contributions through pull requests on Github!

To wet your appetite for GR8Conf US 2014 at the end of the month, we also have more GR8Conf Europe 2014 videos published last week!

Releases

• Groovy Grails ToolSuite 3.6.0 out with Groovy 2.3 and Grails 2.4 support on Eclipse 4.4
• GrooScript 0.5.2 is out
• The Windows installer for Groovy 2.3.4 is available thanks to Joachim Baumann
• Andrés Almiray released the Asciidoctor Gradle plugin v0.7.3 which is compatible with JDK 6+

News

• Kunal Dabir created an “awesome-groovy” Github project providing a curated list of interesting Groovy-based projects

Articles

• Benjamin Muschko explains why build your Java projects with Gradle rather than Ant or Maven
• Guillaume Laforge gathered the feedback the team received about the new Groovy website
• Roberto Guerra writes about Ratpack’s templates
• Use Gradle to switch a dependency from binary to source mode and back, by Sven Ehrke
• Grails Goodness by MrHaki
  • change response formats in RestfulController
  • custom controller class with resource Annotation
  • using converter named configurations with default renderers
• Pawel Oczadly reveals a Gradle tip: set a different name for wrapper and the default build script

Presentations — GR8Conf Europe 2014

• Noam Tenne delivered a fantastic Groovy puzzler talk
• Graeme Rocher talks about Grails 3 and beyond
• Andrés Almiray on what’s new and coming in Griffon
• Lari Hotari on Grails 3 and Ratpack
• Peter Ledbrook guides you through bootstrapping your projects with Lazybones
• Jeff Brown shows you how you can do polyglot web development with Grails 2

Mailing-list posts

• Dylan Bijnagte announces Spock-Genesis: data generators for data-driven / property based testing with Spock

Google+ posts

• LinYuan Zheng launched an effort to translate the Groovy documentation in Chinese

Tweets

• Marco Vermeulen is looking for a PaaS sponsor to host GVM
• Dan Woods measured Ratpack’s great stable performance at 52K requests/second on a large Amazon EC2 instance
• Cédric Champeau notices that in a matter of hours, the new Groovy website project on Github received 3 pull requests
• As noted by Vladimír Oraný, the “improve the doc” button on the new Groovy web site makes it easy to contribute improvements to the site
• Andrés Almiray choses JBake and Asciidoctor for the upcoming Griffon 2.0 website
• Guillaume Laforge mentions a dozen pull requests in a day following the announcement of the beta version of the new Groovy website
• Cédric Champeau published an updated Android GR8Conf agenda application built with Groovy for GR8Conf US 2014
• Cédric Champeau and Robert Fletcher contrast Groovy traits and Java 8 default methods
• The Gr8Ladies website received a nice facelift
• Ratpack 0.9.7 will integrate with the Gradle Shadow plugin for fat-jar-ing Ratpack apps
• Eric MacAdie is using Groovy Validator on immutable objects

Code snippets

• Alexander Klein is exploring Groovy builders for Android
• Roberto Guerra shows to authenticate with via Google OAuth for your Ratpack applications

Books

• Glen Smith is proud to have the Grails in Action 2nd edition book in his hands for real
• Grails in Action 2nd edition is now available in print