Question

I’ve created a private plugin for domain objects that are shared between two grails applications. I’m able to use the plugin successfully in my local environment as I’ve set the path to it via the BuildConfig file. For example, I have the following directories:

appOne/
myPlugin/grails-my-plugin-0.1.zip     (myPlugin is a grails plugin project dir)

In: appOne/grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy:

grails.plugin.location.compileMyPlugin = "../myPlugin"

My question is, what is the proper/best way to handle “packaging” this plugin with my app release so I can deploy it to a cloud service where it won’t be available for download? I imagine there is a way to have grails do this for you but I’m unsure. (I’m very new to grails)

Answer 1

I ended up doing the following to resolve this in Grails 2.1.0:

1) In the Grails Plugin Project:
grails package-plugin     Produces the grails-myplugin-0.1.zip file

2) Copy plugin to my application’s lib directory (appOne/lib/grails-myplugin-0.1.zip)

3) In BuildConfig.groovy

• Remove: grails.plugin.location.compilemyPlugin = “../myPlugin”
  This was/is used during development to prevent the rebuild-reinstall process
  when updating files included in the plugin.

• Add:

  plugins {
  …..
  compile ‘:grails-myPlugin:0.1’
  }

4) Test by cleaning appOne and re-run which will install/re-install the plugin via the lib directory

5) Commit all changes and add the plugin zip file to appOne and push. The cloud provider,
Heroku in this case, can then resolve the dependency.