(Quick Reference)
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 instancegrailsApplication - 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 (1.7.10, JVM: 1.5.0_07-87)
Type 'go' to execute statements; Type 'help' for more information.
groovy:000>
