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Re: JUnit Rules and Spock

aalmiray — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:57:29 -0000

I think that the rule field must have an explicit public modifier, otherwise the JUnit verifier complains.

Re: The Curious Coder’s Guide to Java Web Frameworks: Grails

aalmiray — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 06:25:36 -0000

Excellent intro, just a few remarks:

* latest Grails release is 2.2.3; a must have if you're running jdk7u25. See http://jira.grails.org/brow...
* There's great support for Grails in all major IDEs. Eclipse is not a *must* in order to develop Grails applications. You can even use text editors such as TextMate, Sublime Text, or my personal favorite: Vim.
* There's no need to generate controller and views If relying on default behavior, just scaffold everything http://grails.org/doc/lates... and customize as needed

Re:

aalmiray — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:42:44 -0000

There are several ways to instantiate a GroovyShell. One particular constructor can handle "org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilerConfiguration" as input. This class is used to setup configuration options to the underlying Groovy compiler used by the Shell. One of those options allow you to define a base class for the generated script. This class must extend "groovy.lang.Script" however you may define additional methods. The following link [ https://gist.github.com/aal... ] shows a modified version of the examples demonstrated by Anton; this example makes use of a custom script class, no need to muck around with Java proxies anymore ;-)

Re: The Adventurous Developer’s Guide to JVM Languages – Fantom

aalmiray — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:44:21 -0000

@Oleg: while I agree that Fantom's multi-line feature with automatic indentation feels more natural than Groovy's let me remind readers of two GDK ( http://groovy.codehaus.org/... ) methods available on java.lang.String: stripIndent() and stripMargin().

The following snippets produce the well formatted output without forcing multi-line strings to skip left indentation

https://gist.github.com/aal...

Re: Scala, Groovy – A Comparision

aalmiray — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:19:06 -0000

Not to mention that Play! supports Groovy too (even before Scala support was added). Additional Groovy frameworks/tools include:

Gaelyk (http://gaelyk.appspot.com/) - GAE web framework
Ratpack (https://github.com/bleeding... - minimalistic web framework inspired in Ruby's Sinatra (Scala has Scalatra -> http://www.scalatra.org/)
Spock (http://www.spockframework.o... - Uber testing framework. Scala has Scalatest (http://www.scalatest.org/) and Scalacheck (http://code.google.com/p/sc... but they do not come close to what Spock can do. Also there's Easyb (http://www.easyb.org/)
GPars (http://gpars.codehaus.org/) - a library that provides constructs for handling concurrency (not just Actors), similarly to Akka.
Gradle (http://www.gradle.org) - next generation build tool (Scala has SBT, however it also does not come close to Gradle's flexibility).