shell
Purpose
Starts an instance of the Groovy terminal shell with an initialized Grails runtime.Examples
Description
Usage:
grails [environment]* shell
Starts the Grails shell, which is an extended version of the regular Groovy shell. Within the binding of the shell there are a couple of useful variables:
ctx
- The Spring ApplicationContext instance
grailsApplication
- The GrailsApplication instance
These are useful as they allow access to the conventions within Grails and interesting beans in the context.Fired Events:
StatusFinal
- When the shell is loaded
Example Shell:Groovy Shell (1.1-rc-1, JVM: 1.5.0_07-87)
Type 'go' to execute statements; Type 'help' for more information.
groovy> Book.list()
groovy> go