Different Levels of Logging to Different Appenders or Files: When a project is running, then lot of log messages (all type of log messages e.g. Error, Fatal, Warning, Info, Debug etc.) are logged into a single log file. Many times we try to find the error messages only, instead of debugging the complete application. In […]
I am a linux user and like to do everything on command line, I find it more productive. Anytime I need to write long command or use any command frequently, I always create an alias for that, for example while running the test cases I need to run the command so I created alias for […]
We are constantly striving to be more productive by minimizing key-strokes for a lot of commonly used shell commands. Alias is one way of achieving it, but it isn’t always the answer. Bash auto completion is one feature that I use a lot. To avoid the hassles of working with multiple grails projects, I use […]
Using Grails, we often set some application wide constants or config properties or execute certain tasks in bootstrap.groovy when the application starts . A better approach is to create a new class in src/groovy and have it implement Initialization bean interface [java] import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean class MyClass implements InitializingBean { void afterPropertiesSet() { // do you stuff here. } […]
So, most of the users here around me are ubuntu users, and it’s not something uncommon that a recent upgrade broke your system and now you are just pulling your hair and cursing the time when you clicked that “Upgrade” button. So, what is it that you can do from saving yourself in such scenarios. […]
Grails supports sending all log messages(error,fatal etc.) to a support team or to yourself, by email (gmail account), via log4j with SMTP Appender. 1. For this we have to do some configration in Config.groovy as shown below: [groovy] // import SMTPAppender and Log4j Lever classes import org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender import org.apache.log4j.Level … // Mail server Configration mail.error.server […]
Recently I was working on a Groovy and Grails Development project and had a requirement to sort multiple fields in a list of maps. I needed to sort the below list of maps by firstName, then by lastName and then by ascending age. It means first, the firstNames will be compared. If they are same, […]