Quest for holy Grails
by Stii
This weekend I decided to take some me time and learn something new. I’ve been looking at Groovy a little and decided to play with Grails (A Ruby on Rails like MVC web development framework for Groovy) a couple of hours over the weekend. I downloaded the minibook “Getting started with Grails” (which you can download for free upon registration at InfoQ) and started working through it.
I found it all surprisingly simple, even though it would be safe to say I have almost ZERO Java experience or knowledge. I found it all very intuitive and well explained, although I should add that I have not yet completed the entire exercise.
I’m using Netbeans as the IDE of choice and it is pretty impressive! At first I found the project structure a little confusing as it is different to the Grails file system.
Found that all I need to do to see the Grails file system is to click on the Files tab in the project window.
I pretty much followed the instructions in the book I downloaded. I’m sure it would get harder and more tricky, but so far so good. I’m loving it already! Now the trick would be finding more time for playing…
Great stuff, glad you starting to like Java, Netbeans is cool, I use it whenever I have to develop an application in Java, except I havent tried Ruby on Rails or Groovy, but will try it out soon