Glen

Using searchable across domain classes

Mike has done some great sleuthing on how to use Grails uber-cool searchable plugin to search a domain class based on properties of a nested class. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! Gravl supports multiple blogs per install, and when you are viewing my blog, I want those seaches to be constrained to fulltext search of just *my* blog, not all the data in the blog db. My data model is...

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Gravl: Funky Image Preview and Inplace Editing

I’ve been having fun implementing my first cut at Image/File management for Gravl, and along the way I’ve learnt about LightBox and the Scriptaculous InPlaceEditor stuff. First up, I needed a way of doing an image preview, so I could see what all of those PNGs really meant. Lightbox gives you a great way of “overlaying” the preview image as a popup without the need to refresh the...

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Gravl: Autocompleting and Funky Timelines

If you haven’t had a chance to play with the RichUI plugin, you’ve got to take it for a spin – it’s just fantastic. I’ve been meaning to implement autocomplete for Gravl tags on new blog entries, and with the RichUI plugin (which uses Yahoo Autocomplete under the hood) it’s a total snack. First you declare the RichUI taglibs in your gsp file (note: I’m using the...

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Gravl: Fulltext Search Redux with Searchable

Thanks to a fantastic tip from Karl on yesterday’s post, I’ve got the searchable plugin up and running on my Grails-RC3 install! Here’s the fix from Karl: i‘ve got a working Searchable-0.4-SNAPSHOT wo. npe, this is working with the RCs too. In the plugin‘s java directory u need to slightly modify the org/codehaus/groovy/grails/plugins/searchable/compass/SearchableCompassUtils.java...

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Gravl: Adding Fulltext Search

I’ve just finished adding fulltext search to Gravl, and, while is still needs some more CSS tweaks, it’s working just great. I took the chance to have a good look at the Searchable plugin and it looks awesome! Sadly, it just kept NPEing at me and complaining that it couldn’t find java.lang.Class! Perhaps it’s a victim of the RC-flux, no doubt it will resurface as 1.0 settles...