Testing and Some Plugins

Testing

Grails supports unit testing with a mixin approach. Annotations:

• @TestFor(X): Specifies the class under test.
• @Mock(Y): Creates a Mock for the given class.

For tests GORM provides an in-memory mock database that uses a ConcurrentHashMap. You can create tests for Tag libraries, command objects, URL-Mappings, XML & JSON, etc.

Cache plugin

• You can add the @Cacheable annotation on Service or Controller methods.
• Cache tags: cache:block and cache:render
• Cache-ehcache, -redis, and -gemfire
• Cache configuration DSL

Grails wrapper

The Grails wrapper was added in Grails 2.0. You can create the wrapper using the following command:

$ grails wrapper

The above produces grailsw and grailsw.bat (for Nix and Windows, respectively).

The Grails wrapper is helpful when multiple people are working on a project. The wrapper scripts will actually download and install grails when run. Then you can send these scripts to anyone or keep them in your repository.

Cloud

Grails is supported by the following cloud providers:

• Amazon
• Heroku