How to run a Grails app from scratch
Works for Windows; Linux is not covered.
- Install Java 1.5 SDK + SRE
- Add JAVA_HOME to variables. Probably C:\Program Files\Java SDK 1.5
- Dowload Grails package (Google might help)
- Unpack Grails into any dir (C:\Grails?) - this will be your Grails Home dir
- Set GRAILS_HOME variable to that dir
- Add %GRAILS_HOME%\bin to PATH variable
- Install Subversion Tortoise client
- Point SVN client to your SVN URL and provide credentials
- Checkout Grails code from server
- In the Grails dir, run
grails run-app
