In a use case, I needed to import excel spreadsheet and save the data in the database, that was when I came across grails’ excel import plugin. All I had to do was install the plugin and start using it. No Fuss. I created a class in my src/groovy folder [groovy] import org.grails.plugins.excelimport.* class StudentImportXLS […]
Video define new element in html 5. video play without third party plugins as Apple Quict Time and Adobe Flash player.The video element is dectect to be usable without any detection script. You can specify multi video file and browser that support html 5 video use choose the base on what video format they support. […]
In one of our recent Grails project we had to provide support for Viewing Pdf even if end user’s browser did not have any pdf viewer plugin or add on installed. So we decided that we would open our pdf on Google Doc’s pdf viewer. This will behave in same manner as Gmail does , […]
The current project I am working on, is going through QA. At the same time development of the new features and bug fixing is on and we couldn’t afford to loose the test data. So synchronizing the state of the QA database with the development was becoming a pain. So we decided to use grails […]
Today while working on a project, I paired up with my colleague (Uday) and we found that we can render a gsp template in a different manner also. Grails provide us a “tmpl” namespace for rendering the GSP templates. The old way that we use to render a gsp template The other way for rendering […]