Grails’s RESTClient
The groovy.net.http.RESTClient class is a subclass of a more general groovyx.net.http.HttpBuilder class and comes with the "rest" plugin (http://grails.org/plugin/rest). GET A simple GET request with query parameters: def rest =…
Debugging Rails 3 in (Aptana 3.4.2, Windows 7)
More Rails stuff. I was using command line & vim to do some Rails stuff until fingers got tired of switching between files. So I did a some searches and…
Rails w/ MySQL (Windows 7-64)
Mainly notes on setting up the following (suitable for Dreamhost's Rails setup): Ruby 1.8.7-p374 Rails 3.0.3 Ruby devkit (from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/) MySQL Installer 5.6.17 Community Server 64-bit mysql2 GEM '0.2.22' Install Ruby 1.8.7 by…
Developing with Moto X
Just recently upgraded from an Android 2.1 device (HTC Aria) to an Android 4.4 device (Moto X). To enable the developer USB feature that allows installing and running (let alone…
New home!
THEREALVAN.COM has moved to a new home! The previous hosting company had a good introductory rate, but the regular rate was too high for a relatively inactive site like this one.…
xml.MarkupBuilder in Groovy
Typical use of the builder starts with: import groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder def writer = new StringWriter() def xml = new MarkupBuilder(writer) ... String generatedXml = writer.toString() Then the "building" part is what's…
Memcached in Grails: a quickie
Two clients will be covered: XMemcached and spymemcached Xmemcached Add dependency Add in BuildConfig.groovy: dependencies { ... compile 'com.googlecode.xmemcached:xmemcached:1.4.2' } Set up the bean Add in conf/spring/resources.groovy: beans = {…