Author Archives: Sti

Grails: Fix functional tests for forked execution

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Sti

If you’ve also run into the issue that functional tests have a problem with forked execution, but you still want to use it for development (e.g. for reloading), you can use the environment support in BuildConfig.groovy for enabling forking for … Continue reading →

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Upgrade from Grails 2.2.2 to 2.4.1

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Sti

Here’s what was necessary for me to upgrade handful of Grails projects to 2.4.1: Change the grails.version in application.properties grails clean is your friend when changing dependencies change hibernate, tomcat and resources plugin versions to latest kick out the spock … Continue reading →

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Setting up a Ubuntu VM with Vagrant and Ansible on Windows

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Sti

As Ansible has no out-of-the-box support for running on Windows, there’s some tweaking to do. Please note that these instructions just run Ansible against a vagrant managed VM, no Vagrant Ansible provisioning is involved. You’ll install cygwin (+ some packages … Continue reading →

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Grails – “Error An error occurred loading the grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy file: null”

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Sti

If you get this error, check if there’s another (wrong) groovy version on your classpath. For me this happened in IntelliJ because I had @Grab’ed a third party library that depended on an older groovy version, and IntelliJ adds @Grab’ed … Continue reading →

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Screen and Audio Capture with ffmpeg on Windows 7

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Sti

I’ve recently needed to capture a video stream that was being stream in some obscure format, so direct screen and audio recording was the only (at least easiest) option. It works fine with freely available software, but you’ll need some … Continue reading →

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