Grails has a lot of plugins that are useful and probably also a lot that are useless. But nonetheless, there are a lot.
Digging through all these plugins takes time and effort. And then there were lists. A useful tool to some up items and this time it’s Grails plugin time.
These are by far not the only plugins that are useful but it can be helpful. So here’s the list in alphabetic order.
Got any suggestions? Leave them in the comments and I will probably add them.
Plugin to embed reports using the BIRT Report Engine into your grails application.
With this plugin you can easily create test data by automatic inspection of the constraints. A value is automatically provided for the property, after inspection of the constraints.
This plugin runs CodeNarc static analysis rules for the Groovy source
Web-based Groovy Console for Grails
If you want to interact at runtime with your application using a console, you gotta have this plugin.
A nice plugin that renders RSS/Atom feeds or any other format supported by the ROME API. It also has support for iTunes compatible podcasts.
With this plugin you can add filtering capabilities to any Grails application.
Google Visualization API Plugin
A nice plugin that will render the Google Charts using taglibs using the Google Visualization API
Provides a rich UI environment using an extensive taglib library. It uses rich components based on the Yahoo! UI (YUI) javascript library extension called Bubbling Library.
Just install this plugin and you have jQuery power at your hands. It will download and install the latest version of jQuery automatically.
Provides Mail support to a running Grails application
Sending mail with Grails has never been more easy than with this plugin.
If you need to schedule a task, use this plugin.
With this plugin you can add rich search functionality to Grails domain models.
ZKGrails: ZK plugin for Grails
Seamlessly integrate ZK with your Grails application.