install-plugin

Purpose

Installs a plug-in from a file, URL or the Grails central SVN repository

Examples

grails install-plugin http://foo.com/grails-bar-1.0.zip
grails install-plugin ../grails-bar-1.0.zip
grails install-plugin jsecurity
grails install-plugin jsecurity 0.1

Description

Usage:

grails install-plugin [URL/File]
grails install-plugin [name] [version]*

Fired Events:

• StatusUpdate - Fired at various points during the plug-in installation
• StatusError - When an error occurs during plug-in installation
• StatusFinal - When the plug-in is installed successfully
• PluginInstalled - When the plug-in is installed successfully

The install-plugin command is a versatile command that allows the installation of plug-ins from a remote URL, a local file or from the Grails central SVN repository at http://plugins.grails.org

To install from a URL simply specify the absolute URL to the plug-in package:

grails install-plugin http://foo.com/grails-bar-1.0.zip

To install from a local file specify the absolute or relative path to the file:

grails install-plugin ../grails-bar-1.0.zip

You can also install plug-ins provided via the remote central repository. To find out what plug-ins are available use list-plugins

If you want to install a plug-in. Say the "jsecurity" plug-in you can use the install-plugin command followed by the plugin name:

grails install-plugin jsecurity

This will install the latest version of the plug-in. If you need to install a specific version you can use:

grails install-plugin jsecurity 0.1