http://thegioraproject.com Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:20:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I really should start every post with "groovy is a really swell language". You can do some pretty cool things with it. Anyway, I had a desire to have an variable implicitly available in all of my GSP's so that I didn't have to wrap certain blocks in a ... http://thegioraproject.com/2008/06/01/custom-implicit-variables-in-gsps/ Nothing new in this release, but it does now work with JDK 5 and 1.4.2! And they all rejoiced....yea The zip: http://thegioraproject.com/files/grails/plugins/grails-hibernate-events-0.3.zip http://thegioraproject.com/2008/03/27/hibernate-events-plugin-v03/ I'll admit it, I used ImageMagick for my image manipulation instead of Java and I'll show you how I did it. I tried using the image tools plugin. It's terrific. It is easy to install and simple to use. I couldn't ask for anything more. The only ... http://thegioraproject.com/2008/03/26/image-attachments-in-grails-using-imagemagick/ What, another release already? Yep, we're releasing another version of the grails hibernate events plugin.  Well, obviously I wasn't paying attention in grails/hibernate class and it turns out that while it requires a hibernate.cfg.xml to participate in the creation of the SessionFactory, you can still programmatically add event listeners ... http://thegioraproject.com/2008/03/24/hibernate-events-plugin-v02/ On a current grails project I had a need to act on my domain classes using hibernate's persistence lifecycle. However, it turns out that grails only provides three lifecycle methods: beforeInsert, beforeUpdate, beforeDelete. Four if you count onLoad. I was really interested in having an afterInsert method ... http://thegioraproject.com/2008/03/22/hibernate-events-plugin/ My latest application at work is a Ruby on Rails(RoR) app, that we just deployed recently. Being a RoR app it hasn't been so pleasant in production. I'm sure that it is due to my lack of experience in deploying RoR apps, but it has been difficult in any case. ... http://thegioraproject.com/2008/03/04/have-god-watch-over-your-processes-or-how-to-keep-your-app-running-when-your-not-watching/ Just keep in mind that this is a temporary workaround for a problem that should be addressed in a more robust fashion. So on the ext3 filesystem there is a subdirectory limit of 32,000. The problem is that when you reach this limit and you try to add another subdirectory ... http://thegioraproject.com/2008/03/02/workaround-for-subdirectory-limit-on-ext3-filesystem/ I discovered a neat trick to deleting folders/files based on a pattern. Let's say you have a directory structure like this: /test /test/aaaa /test/bbbb /test/cccc /test/ddd /test/eee /test/fff You've decided that any folder with a's, b's, or c's has to go. You definitely don't want to delete them all by hand; especially if there are a couple thousand ... http://thegioraproject.com/2008/02/28/piping-grep-to-rm/ It is unbelievably easy to integrate Ivy as a dependency manager for your grails application. Just a couple of steps really (Note: this is for grails >= 1.0 as < 1.0 had ivy integrated): Install the Ivy plugin: grails install-plugin ... http://thegioraproject.com/2008/02/26/dead-simple-dependencies-with-grails-ivy/