If you’re having troubles with the Bean-Fields plugin on Grails 2.0.0.M2, there’s a quick workaround to get up and running. So if you see something like… Caused by GrailsTagException: Error executing tag <bean:form>: Cannot get property ‘class’ on null object You know you’ve tripped the issue. I’ve logged the issue in GPBEANFIELDS-40 but the root cause is actually not beanfields at all. It’s a breaking change introduced in Grails 2.0.0-M2 for performance improvements (GRAILS-8001). The change [...]

We’ve all been there. Maybe you were in a rush to get your latest Grails app out the door, or maybe it was a hobby project you were doing in your spare time and things just got out of hand. Hack code, click refresh, hack code, click refresh, (pause to complain about why Grails needs a restart), hack code, click refresh. You know the drill. Refresh-driven development (RDD). Either way you find yourself with a [...]

I’m just back from a fantastic time in Wellington, New Zealand, where I was doing some Grails training and speaking duties for Asia/Pacific User Group of SunGardHE. Wellington is a very beautiful place (albeit a little cold – and I *live* in a cold place!) and the local hosting team of Andrew/Dale/Keiryn where just fantastic in sorting everything out! On the first day I had a chance to speak with around 100 managers on the benefits [...]