IntelliJ is definitely the tool to use for developing Groovy and in particular
Grails apps. I
have used eclipse before and it is pretty good, and I have plaid with Netbeans
which is
improving, but IntelliJ has all the nice things that you want such as
re-factoring.

It also supports lots of the Gant scripts within the environment for doing
Grails work such
as creating controllers, domains and services etc. It is also very cool how it
knows all the
related assets when working within a certain file - such as all views and
controllers being
1 click away when working with the domain class.

Well worth the investment for the time it will save you..

RJ


--- In groovy-melbourne@yahoogroups.com, "Shravan Gurrala" <shravan.g@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi Martin and all New to Groovy,
> Am new to groovy and i find GroovyConsole very handy when i want to try out
> few
> snippets. If you are doing more serious programming i would looking into
> IntelliJ.
> If you are a poor programmer like me then i think Eclipse is a good option
> even though
> its not as fancy as IntelliJ....there is not much there if a text editor
> like ultraedit or jedit
> doesn't cut.
>
> BTW: The groovy podcast was very good. Thanks for that.
> cheers
> Shravan
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Martin Paulo <martin.paulo@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > Lots of "ands", but: anyone who is not on the VJUG mailing list, and who
> > missed Brents talk to the Groovy User Group on the Meta-Object Protocol
> > might like to see him reprise it tomorrow night to the VJUG.
> >
> > Details can be found here:
> > https://victorianjug.dev.java.net/2008/April/April.html
> >
> > There is a copy of Intellij being given away, which reminds me: IDEA have
> > just released an update to their Groovy/Grails plugin. This may be of
> > interest to this group. Details can be found here:
> > http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/groovy_grails.html?nl
> >
> > And the question: being new to Grails/Groovy, what tools are you all using
> > for Groovy/Grails work?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Martin
> >
> >
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