(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 Spring beans.
Fired Events:
StatusFinal - When the shell is loaded
Example Shell:
Groovy Shell (1.8.0, JVM: 1.6.0_26)
Type 'help' or 'h' for help.
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groovy:000>
