Groovy Weekly #45
This week, coming back from the Devoxx conference in Belgium, I’ve gathered a bag of Groovy news for your consumption, for our usual Tuesday Groovy Weekly release!
No particular big highlight today, but perhaps just a happy birthday to GrooScript, the Groovy to JavaScript transpiler, and also notice the opening of the Call for Paper for the GR8Conf conferences in Europe and in the United States.
Releases
- Gradle 2.2.1-rc-1 released
Articles
- Luke Daley explains Ratpack’s execution model in practice
- Custom collections in Groovy by Marcin Gryszko
- MrHaki’s Gradle Goodness: Check task dependencies with a dry run
- Dan Tanner wrote about the differences between Groovy’s collect and spread-dot operator
- Displaying all dependencies for all subprojects in a multi-project Gradle build
- String templates in Groovy by Mike Hostetler
- Craig Burke writes the first article of a series about the Angular.JS Grails template
Presentations
- Devoxx special
- Guillaume Laforge presented “Groovy in the light of Java 8”
- Guillaume Laforge presented “Groovy in 2014 and beyond”
- Cédric Champeau presented “Groovy and Android, the winning pair”
- Jérôme Louvel from the Restlet and APISpark projects mentions a PayPal API platform presentation showing Groovy being used for API composition
Mailing-lists
- New versions of the Groovy Eclipse compiler are coming along
News
- An update of GroovyBlogs with infinite loading of recent and popular blog posts
- Andrés Almiray found this old gem in honor of Dick Wall from the Javaposse fame as the podcast comes to its end, showing Dick loving the Groovy
- Jacob Aae Mikkelsen’s Grails Diary week 46
Tweets
- GrooScript celebrates 2 years since the 0.1 release!
- Lari Hotari is working on Grails 3 / Spring Boot startup time optimisations
- Patrick Double published a Grails plugin to improve Grails / SauceLabs Geb integration
- GrooScript chat application deployed on Heroku with Node.JS and Socket.IO
- Ratpack features a URL builder utility
- Hans Dockter showed declarative dependency replacement with Gradle at Devoxx 2014
- Hans Dockter showed how to tell Gradle that you don’t want to depend on beta dependencies
- Gradle 2.2.1-rc-1 available on GVM
- Álvaro Sánchez sparks a discussion about Spock labels indentation on twitter
Code snippets
- Cédric Champeau is working on AST tree matching
- Vladimir Orany shares a snippet showing how to enable DSL support in IntelliJ IDEA