Grails Golfer

A test-bed for playing with Groovy & Grails and other related technologies. There's no real functionality here, just some basic domain models for modelling a fictional golf app, some generated scaffolding and a bunch of experiments with different testing frameworks. Also contains a patch to support SQLite (because I already had an SQLite db kicking around which I initially used for this).

Run the app

grails run-app

Run all tests

grails -Dserver.port=8090 test-app -echoOut

Run functional tests, forcing use of chrome (swap 'chrome' for 'firefox' to use the firefox driver, or delete the -Dgeb.env setting altogether to run headless using HTMLUnit)

grails -Dgeb.env=chrome -Dserver.port=8090 test-app -functional -echoOut

Grails Notes

Grails Docs - http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/

Testing

http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/testing.html Use '-echoOut' to log messages in test to console i.e. test-app -echoOut

Unit Testing

grails test-app unit: com.richardadamdean.golfer.Round - run a single unit test.

http://code.google.com/p/spock/ - BDD Specs

grails test-app :spock - run only Spock specs (spock specs will also be picked up as part of the full test-app suite)

Functional Testing

http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/testing.html#functionalTesting http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html

GEB - http://gebish.org - combines webdriver, jquery style selectors, page modelling - basically it’s capybara

Nice simple example grails app with Geb & Spock integration https://github.com/geb/geb-example-grails

To run func tests on a different port:

grails -Dgeb.env=chrome -Dserver.port=8090 test-app -functional 

Cucumber

https://github.com/hauner/grails-cucumber https://github.com/hauner/grails-cucumber/wiki/Automating-Specification-with-Cucumber-and-Grails https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm

Run using:

grails test-app :cucumber

https://github.com/hauner/grails-cucumber/wiki/Testing-Grails-with-Cucumber-and-Geb -

Gradle

http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/userguide_single.html

Database Migrations

http://blog.springsource.com/2011/08/17/countdown-to-grails-2-0-database-migrations/

Legacy Databases

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-grails07158/ - old but interesting

REST & Grails

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-grails09168/

Cheatsheet

Create a new Grails app

grails create-app my-project

List a classes persistent properties:

import com.richardadamdean.golfer.* import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.DefaultGrailsDomainClass def d = new DefaultGrailsDomainClass(User.class) d.persistentProperties

Add “grails.gorm.failOnError = true” to Config.groovy to force validation fails to fail noisily (by default validaton fails will do so quietly)