I am currently moving development machines. No only a new machine but a new O.S. This has been a process I have been dreading as when ever you move and download the new installers there is almost always some weird error message or behavior that wasn't previously present. Sometimes useful features are removed. Precious time can be lost to the black hole named on setup & configure.
I am moving from a windows laptop running grails 0.6 Intelli-J 7.0 to macbook with grails 1.0 and Intelli-J 7.03. Some impressions:
- Since 7.0 Intelli-J seems to have made the static controller the auto generated default rather then the magic box dynamic one. This is good for me.
- I moved each of my projects folders across using www.dropsend.com (equivalent of FTP but via web with very clean U.I and 1/2 GB free space. Highly recommend.)
- I placed these into the same Intelli-J project folder. The folder layout seems very similar to the windows install.
- I opened the project inside Intelli-J. It recognized that I had created the project in grails 0.6 and offered to upgrade to grails 1.0 (using the grails scripts behind the scenes). Upgrade seems to have been bug free. Very cool.
- When I attemted to run the project Intelli-J complained that my module did not have a valid JDK assigned. Uh oh. A little poking around I found the module settings (ctrl click project name > module settings). Inside here it was complaining that it could not find jdk 6 (which is still only developer preview on mac at the time of writing). I set this to use JDK 5 and was able to successfully run the project .
- I have tested both the bundled in-memory database and got a native my sql install up and running. Both running perfectly.
