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[...] /conf directory and the name ends with BootStrap. And we can create another bootstrap class: Code written with Grails 2.3.7. [...]

[...] the index and show methods and use the formats attribute when we use the respond method: Code written with Grails 2.4.2. [...]

[...] separated format can be in an external file): The file tools.cv has the following contents: Code written with Asciidoctor 1.5.0. [...]

[...] : Now we execute the tasks from sample.gradle without the options -b or --build-file: Code written with Gradle 2.1. [...]

To convert a byte[] array to a String we can simply use the new String(byte[]) constructor. But if the array contains non-printable bytes we don't get [...]

When we use ConfigSlurper to read a configuration file or script we get a ConfigObject as return result. We can get the values of the configuration pr [...]

Groovy adds the pop and push methods to the List class. With the pop method we remove the last element of the list. And with the push method we add an [...]

In Groovy we can use the head and tail methods for a long time on Collection objects. With head we get the first element and with tail the remaining e [...]

Writing technical documentation with Asciidoc and Asciidoctor is so much fun. Especially the include macro makes inserting changing content, like sour [...]

One of the many cool features of Asciidoc is attribute substitution. We can define attributes with values and in our Asciidoc markup we reference thos [...]

In a previous blog post we learned about the conditional directives in Asciidoctor. Dan Allen mentioned a conditional directive that we can use to see [...]

To use font icons from FontAwesome we set the document attribute icons with the value font. The default link to the CSS location is https://cdnjs.clou [...]

[...] . The contents of the file is the class name of the implementation class. Let's start with the Asciidoc markup and then write an implementation to process the inline macro twitter that is used: To [...]

[...] Normally when we write a paragraph in Asciidoc markup the line breaks are not preserved. Multiple lines are combined into a paragraph until an [...]

[...] is a great tool for writing technical documentation. If we have source code in the Asciidoc markup we can set the document attribute source-highlighter to pigments, coderay, prettify and [...]

[...] . Let's start with a very simple table. The last cell of the first row contains some Asciidoc markup: When we transform this Asciidoctor source to HTML we see the following output: Notice that [...]

We can use the integrateWith command with Grails to generate for example IDE project files and build system files. We specify via an extra argument th [...]

We can extend the integrate-with command in Grails to generate files for a custom IDE or build system. We must add a _Events.groovy file to our Grails [...]

[...] Today Grails Goodness Notebook is published. This book is an electronic publication with all blog posts about [...] I publish new Grails Goodness blog posts. [...]

In Grails we can add aliases for standard Grails commands with the alias command. For example we want to use another name for a command or combine a c [...]

In most of our projects we have dependencies on other code, like libraries or other projects. Gradle has a nice DSL to define dependencies. Dependenci [...]

Gradle has some sophisticated progress logging on the console. For example we can see how much percentage of the building process is done. The percent [...]

My colleague, Tom Wetjens, wrote a blog post Package-only dependencies in Maven. He showed a Maven solution when we want to include dependencies in th [...]

In a previous post we learned how to run a Java application in a Gradle project. The Java source file with a main method is part of the project and we [...]

Creating a table with Asciidoctor is a breeze. The syntax is very clear and the HTML output shows a very nice looking table. But there is also a lot o [...]

When we define a table in Asciidoctor the columns all have the same width and the table will the whole width of the page. Of course we can change this [...]

In a previous post we learned how to use Asciidoc markup in a table. The a character is just one of many styles we can define in our table. In this bl [...]

Since Asciidoctor 1.5.0 we can use extensions when we write AsciiDoc documents. These extensions can be written in Ruby or any JVM language. If we use [...]

[...] : We can specify CSS classes using the role attribute for the macro. But together with the HTML backend and font-based icons we can also use other attributes: size, rotate and flip. The size [...]

[...] If we use the HTML backend with Asciidoc we can use a passthrough block to include raw HTML in the output. The contents [...]

[...] a nowrap value to have horizontal scrolling instead of wrapped lines. This applies for the HTML backend when we generate the documentation. In the following markup we first use the default wrapping [...]

[...] like window and role: The following HTML is generated when we use Asciidoctor with the HTML backend: Code written with Asciidoctor 0.1.4. [...]

[...] over the title. The icon itself is the link to the section. Section title in generated HTML output. Hover over section title and icon is shown. Section icon is link reference. With the [...]

[...] block in our documentation with the attribute grailsVersion in the content: When we generate HTML output we get the following result: We add now the subs attribute to our listing: The generated HTML [...]

[...] sample Asciidoc markup we see several usages of the ifdef and ifndef macros: If we generate HTML output and set and unset the intermediate and advanced document attributes we see that content is [...]

[...] (////). The following sample markup defines Asciidoc markup with comments: When we generate HTML output we don't see any of the comments, not even in the HTML source: Written with Asciidoctor 1.5.0. [...]

[...] incorporate a Domain Specific Language (DSL) in our application where the DSL is expressed in Groovy code and executed by GroovyShell. To limit the constructs that can be used in the DSL (which is [...]

[...] We can customize how the fluent API is generated with different annotation parameters. In Groovy code we already can use the with method to have a clean way to set property values or use the [...]

[...] When we write Groovy code there is a big chance we also write some closures. If we are working with collections for [...]