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Ari
Ari

Reputation: 4191

Which tools to use for Grails Development

I've recently started using Grails and I have the following questions about the available tools for development on the framework:

  1. I tried using maven with the a project, but that wasn't working so I switched to the in-built ant/ivy system. It works fine and is easy to use, but I'm curious if down the road there may be problems - i.e. during deployment time.

  2. I started with Gedit, but would like to switch to either Netbeans or Eclipse. While both have groovy and gsp support, neither seems to be able to use ivy. Does anyone know how to configure either to use the ivy cache?

Edit:

My second question is similar to How to make use of Grails Dependencies in your IDE

Essentially, I'd like to make use of the dependencies gathered by grails (BuildConfig.groovy) in the ivy cache in eclipse or netbeans.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 501

Answers (3)

Pascal Thivent
Pascal Thivent

Reputation: 570365

Both NetBeans 6.8+ and Eclipse STS 2.2.0+ with the Groovy & Grails extension offer very good Groovy & Grails support (IntelliJ is another great candidate but AFAIK, you'll have to get the Ultimate version for Grails features).

Regarding Ivy, I know that there is an IvyIDE plugin for Eclipse and an Ivy module for NetBeans (also check the FaqIvy).

Upvotes: 2

Eugene Ryzhikov
Eugene Ryzhikov

Reputation: 17359

I'd suggest using SpringSource Tool Suite. Not only because it has great Grails support but because SpringSource is the company behind the Grails project. IMO they're destined to have the best tools for it :)

Upvotes: 2

duffymo
duffymo

Reputation: 308763

I don't see what Ant, Ivy, or Maven are doing for you here. Isn't Grails itself enough?

I'd recommend IntelliJ for its wonderful Grails support over either NetBeans or Eclipse.

Upvotes: 1

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