ep-41.md

Groovy Podcast Ep. 41

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

With Ken Kousen in Marlborough, CT and Baruch Sadogursky in Sunnyvale, CA.

Reminder: Groovy Community Slack

Groovy community Slack Everything in the Groovy community slack is archived at http://groovy-community.slackarchive.io/

News items

• Geb 1.1 released announcement by Marcin Erdmann that Geb 1.1 is now available. Support for URL fragment identifiers for navigation and performance improvements to the unexpected pages feature

• Grails 3.1.15 released with minor enhancements and bug fixes

• Groovy 2.4.8 released with bug fixes for static typing, inner classes, traits and performance/memory issues

• bash and zsh completion for Gradle Fast tab completion for gradle tasks in current project and sub-projects, Gradle CLI switches (like --parallel), and common Gradle properties (like -Dorg.gradle.debug)

• Gradle Newsletter Subscribe to Gradle newsletter and download previous issues

• So Why is Spock Such a Big Deal? Article by Russel Winder on how Spock improves on JUnit, and JVM testing history

• Grails 3 book Practical Grails 3 early access

• Make mocking great again! blog post by Sebastian Schulz on mocking classes with Groovy

• HTTP Server/Client GitHub gist by Renato Athaydes showing a Groovy trait to add HTTP client capabilities to any class

• speak.gradle Gist by Etienne Studer adding voice notification to Gradle builds on OS X

• Creating your first Grails Application Guide by Zachary Klein showing in great detail how to make a Grails 3 app

• Testing a Secured Grails Application Guide by Sergio del Amo that creates a functional test of a REST API endpoint secured with the Grails Spring Security Rest plugin. Uses a GebSpec to create a functional test

• Tweet from @sdelamo "@ilopmar stands for Ivan Lopez Martin, who co-organizes Greach"

• @HttpBuilderNG twitter account is alive

• Make your testing Groovy YouTube recording of presentation by Paul King from Linux Conf AU (Hobart, Tasmania)

• Automating Testing for Generated HTML Content Using Gradle blog post by Patrick Double

• Deploy a Ratpack app on Google App Engine Flex blog post and demo by Guillaume Laforge

• Creating Groovy Custom Annotations blog post by Eugene Smirnov on creating AST transformations

• My first day at OCI Blog post about how Sergio del Amo learned about Grails and eventually joined OCI

• Gambda Groovy framework by Eric Helgeson and Bobby Warner for building AWS Lambda functions. Gist showing how Eric uses it to charge Stripe when people buy the Grails 3 book is here

• Gr8conf call for papers now open for both US and EU

Conferences

• Greach, Madrid, Spain, Mar 30 - Apr 1, 2017
• Gr8conf EU, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31 - June 2, 2017
• Gr8conf US, Minneapolis, MN, July 26 - 28, 2017

Thank you

• No Fluff Just Stuff for the website hosting
• The Grails diary for so much of the regular news
• The Groovy Calamari for tons of news as well!

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Brought to you by

• Peter Ledbrook - t: @pledbrook, w: http://www.cacoethes.co.uk/
• Baruch Sadogursky - t: @jbaruch, w: http://www.jfrog.com
• Ken Kousen -t: @kenkousen, w: http://www.kousenit.com