# Groovy Weekly #28

> Explore the latest Groovy ecosystem news, featuring Gradle 2.0, Spring IO Platform 1.0, Grails & Ratpack updates, plus Netflix Groovy jobs.

Author: [Guillaume Laforge](https://glaforge.dev/) | Published: 2014-07-01 | Topics: groovy, groovy-weekly | Canonical: https://glaforge.dev/posts/2014/07/01/groovy-weekly-28/


A big week for the Gradle team as they’ve just announced the final release of Gradle 2.0! It’s of course a very important milestone for the project, and it’s nice to see that the migration to Groovy 2.3 as a baseline.

There are also some updates to Grails, Ratpack, and also the launch of the Spring IO platform that you might be interested in.

You’ll see also a list of job postings for Netflix, where Groovy is deployed at a very large scale and who are always seeking Groovy talents.

## Releases

*   [Gradle 2.0](http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/gradle_2_0_released) released (with Groovy 2.3 included!)
*   [Ratpack 0.9.6](http://www.ratpack.io/versions/0.9.6) released
*   [Grails 2.4.2 and 2.3.11](https://grails.org/news/1290721) are released
*   The GrooScript Gradle pluging v0.4 is out, with Gradle 2.0 and Groovy 2.3.3
*   The [Spring IO platform 1.0](https://spring.io/blog/2014/06/26/spring-io-platform-1-0-0-released) has just been released, aligned with the recent Groovy & Grails releases
*   [Lazybones 0.7](https://twitter.com/pledbrook/status/481773978206601217) is released
*   [Spring Boot 1.1.2](https://twitter.com/springboot/status/481569291754434560) is out
*   [Spring Boot 1.1.3](https://spring.io/blog/2014/06/27/spring-boot-1-1-3-available-now) out as well!

## Articles

*   June [newsletter from GradleWare](http://www.gradleware.com/newsletter/gradleware-newsletter-june-2014/) about all things Gradle
*   [Functors in Groovy](http://mperry.github.io/2014/07/01/groovy-functors.html) by Mark Perry
*   MrHaki's Spocklight: [assign multiple data variables from provider](http://mrhaki.blogspot.fr/2014/06/spocklight-assign-multiple-data.html)
*   MrHaki shows how to [write your own data providers for Spock](http://mrhaki.blogspot.fr/2014/06/spocklight-write-our-own-data-provider.html)
*   Infographic article from Cygnet Infotech on [moving from legacy technologies towards Grails](http://www.cygnet-infotech.com/infographics/legacy-system-to-grails)

## Presentations

*   Dan Woods presented [Ratpack](https://github.com/danveloper/uberconf2014-ratpack) at UberConf 2014, with slides and demos
*   Slides and demos from Dan Woods on [introducing Groovy developers to the Java 8](https://github.com/danveloper/uberconf2014-from-groovy-to-java8) new features, presented at UberConf 2014
*   [Groovy as a scripting language](https://speakerdeck.com/jlstrater/groovy-as-a-scripting-language), by Jen Strater, at the GR8Ladies GR8Workshop

## News

*   The [GroovyFX project migrated its documentation to Asciidoctor](http://groovyfx.org/docs/index.html)
*   [Intellij IDEA's new Early Access Program](https://twitter.com/rfletcherew/status/482479225253810176) has started, for version 14, which includes the Groovy traits support, as well as better interactions between Grails and Gradle

## Mailing-lists

*   Cédric Champeau announced that [older versions of the Groovy documentation](http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Docs-available-for-older-versions-of-Groovy-td5720254.html) were now also available online

## Jobs

*   [Netflix is still looking for Groovy talents](https://twitter.com/tmbradley73/status/481824337343684608)
*   Daniel Jacobson from Netflix lists some of the [job postings from Netflix where Groovy skills are needed](https://gist.github.com/glaforge/e1d88601c053611678ae)

## Podcasts

*   Peter Ledbrook recoreded [Episode 4 of the Groovy podcast](http://groovypodcast.podbean.com/e/groovy-podcast-ep-2-1403795851/), including an interview with Baruch Sadogursky of JFrog, to discuss Groovy, Gradle, Bintray and more

## Tweets

*   Cédric Champeau points at the [Groovy support for Android](https://twitter.com/cedricchampeau/status/482045140547428352), for those who are disappointed that Google didn't announce a new language for Android
*   [Grails 2.4.2 and 2.3.11](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/482131395419308032) are available on GVM
*   Rob Fletcher shares a screenshot of the nice [T icon for traits in IntelliJ IDEA 14](https://twitter.com/rfletcherew/status/482498222074912769) EAP
*   [Lazybones 0.7](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/481767669361045504) is available on GVM
*   [Spring Boot 1.1.2](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/481767515564281856) available through GVM
*   Alexander Klein explains the [inception of the GVM logo](https://storify.com/glaforge/alexander-klein-explains-the-inception-of-the-gvm)
*   A [Ratpack tip](https://twitter.com/ratpackweb/status/482242234029318145) to enable static compilation of Ratpack scripts
*   More [happy users of Groovy on Android](https://twitter.com/joanzap/status/483635064224624641)!
*   [Gradle 2.0](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/483941783811129344) is available through GVM

## Code snippets

*   Jon Brisbin is brainstorming some a [Basho WebMachine Groovy](https://twitter.com/j_brisbin/status/482942386843041793) approach

## Events

*   [GR8Conf US programme, sponsors, and teasing the great talks](https://storify.com/glaforge/gr8conf-us-programme-and-last-day-for-the-early-bi) you'll be able to attend