Need to start thinking about it3. It3 is kind of hard, intentionally. Also, each sprint’s allotted time has to be changed to 3 weeks. I think that is reasonable given the new position.

grails.config.locations = [ //"classpath:${appName}-config.properties",
//"classpath:${appName}-config.groovy",
"file:${userHome}/${appName}-config.properties"]

Notice: I have added the file is users file system , so the user can change it, without touching the war file . Restarting the app should pick up the new value
2) in the ${appName}-config.properties” file

dataSource.driverClassName = com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
dataSource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/something
dataSource.username=root
dataSource.password=secret

Notice no quotes in the value
I am using grails 1.2.1

grails.config.locations = ["file:./grails-app/conf/${appName}-config.properties"]

3) create the {appName}-config.properties in

{appName}/grails-app/conf/

Possible problem: In war file, the properties file ends up in

WEB-INF\classes\

directory, so It might be better to just uncomment the
grails.config.locations existing already in step 2
Need to test.

Also see this site .

“The configuration mechanism of Grails is nice, but there is a small trouble. The configuration files are compiled and packed into the deployment package (WAR) during project build phase. However, one usually does not want to rebuild the whole application just to change say a database password. So, how to do it? “

This could be another option — but the problem is given a war file in tomcat how does one access those files
Does the

“file:${userHome}/.grails/${appName}-config.properties”

for the property ” “grails.config.locations” take care of it?
Need to test

Only three things need to be configured before start up , the admin user name paasword, the database info;and the google e-mail address for the admin — if they want to send e-mail to the people in the review.

Also Version one has free web based version now — yeah.

The thing about Groovy/Grails I am hating is the typo problem. I wrote a method called getMenus() in a class , but in the caller method I called   .getMneus(). Since there are no  compliation (thus no checking) ,  when I ran it it gave a error and it took me at 30 mins to find the error. Second time, arg! (“rednder” vs “redirect”).   Is there a way to stop this? should not so called IDE help help which this stuff( e.g. “redirect cannot have view property” so give error). I know with “great power comes …”.

The guy in the elevator was right  — fat fingerining will kill you in Grails. Morale is always listen to guy in the elevator (or is the “lift”)

Now thinking of deploying to for a demo, Google App Engine or Some other J2EE plave eatJ . Got accounts on both but not sure either will work. It will be a good test though. After lot of miss installation I have installed STS (spring tool) + Grails plugin+ GoogleAppEngine) , but I have not tried it yet — I do not expect it go smothly. I kept seaparate from STS+grails plugin , I hope, by copying the file from STS+grails to another directory and then starting the new one and installed GAE.

Need to test tonight.

later
Testing Done — the STS+Grails plugin works as before .. yae
Need to finish the last story for the itration 2– adding action to menus — but this needs thinking . Assume I have a menu object which will be sent to the nav/menu pane, how do I populate menu object? The permission table and permissionType will come into play ofcourse  … hmm
Also , need to figure out db configuration during boot strapping — maybe easier to give them a script whose input will be a text file and the war file — and the output will the war file configured. Easier for release 1
So two stories.