Grails

In testing spotmouth, came across some spots that had ampersands in the names.  I put the names in the URL (heard it's good for seo), but when I did a request for the spot with the ampersand in it, I got a 404.

I needed to call the "encodeAsUrl()" on the values that could contain these types of characters.  here's an example of what I am doing:

I am implementing a site (spotmouth) that is using grails and Drupal.  Locally for my drupal stuff, I am running the excellent XAMPP.
I wanted my local grails app behind apache so it would be a lot closer to what my production configuration would be like.  It turns out that by adding the following file to my Grails app, it will enable the AJP port for tomcat.
 
Copy the _Events.groovy  file (below) to your scripts folder in your grails app.   Of course, don't forget your httpd.conf files to proxy your app.

I installed the Groovy Console.  It's a pretty nifty and easy way to quickly run some java that you need to quickly iterate through the write/test/fix cycle.

I was trying to parse some html into xml, and I got the following error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xerces/parsers/AbstractSAXParser

I tried adding 3 different versions of xercesImpl to my Groovy Console classpath, to no avail.  While adding to the groovy classpath worked for some jars (i.e. commons-io), it did not work for the xercesImpl jar.

I am trying to setup the spring batch project (2.0M4 version) to run with grails (1.2)  I wanted to get the sample stuff up and running, so I created groovy files out of the various sample files that came with spring batch.  Unfortunately, the sample files use Java inner classes, which groovy can't handle yet.

For now, I will just make these Java files, but I was a little surprised since I thought just about any syntactically correct java file was a valid Groovy file.  Guess again.  You learn something every day.

I am building out a iphone application using grails and the iUI plugin