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Here is a quick introduction of setting up a project in Grails.

 

1. Download latest version of Grails.

 

2. Unzip the downloaded file.

 

3. Setup environment variables for GRAILS_HOME and PATH

 

4. Create a workspace folder.

 

5. Open cmd and change directory onto that workspace.

 

6. Create a Grails Project by typing

 

grails create-app ProjectName

 

7. After a flurry of activity your project is created! You can see the ProjectName folder in your workspace. Congrats if you reached till here!

 

8. Change onto ProjectName directory.

 

9. Create Domain Class by typing

 

grails create-domain-class com.crawler.intro.lesson1.sampleClassName

 

Go and edit your domain class as you want. (You can add your fields. No need of getters and setters.. It's Groovy!)

 

10. Create Controller by typing

 

grails create-controller com.crawler.intro.lesson1.sampleClassName

 

or

 

grails generate-all com.crawler.intro.lesson1.sampleClassName

 

11. Install Grails UI plugin by typing:

 

grails install-plugin grails-ui

 

12. Add your gui components like expandable panel, accordion etc to your views. (.gsp files under views folder)

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