nullset2 / simple-grails-blog

Very simple blog, developed as a sample exercise.

Simple Grails Blog

Very simple blog, developed as a sample exercise. Grails/scaffolding, GSP, GORM and filtering are all applied. A test suite is included to validate the sanity of the code

Requisites

• JDK 1.8 or later.
• Grails 3.2.x (grails wrapper included)
• Gradle 3.5.x (gradle wrapper included)
• Postgres 1.9 database server with a blog-development database available on development and blog for production (see application.yml for details and be wary not to reveal your prod credentials on a public repo)

I recommend using jabba to install JDKs and sdkman to install grails and gradle.

Getting started

• git clone this repository
• cd into repo
• do ./gradlew to fetch dependencies
• do grails run-app or grails package to get a tasty little war to deploy onto your application server
• hit http://localhost:8080 on development or your prod server
• all resources may be also fetched as json or xml, for example: curl http://localhost:8080/post.json
• do grails test-app to run the test suite

Documentation

• root route is redirected directly to post index
• Post has many Tags (Join Table Post_Tags)
• Tags are fixed (see bootstrap.groovy to customize the list)

E-R Diagram:

What to expect

If running correctly, you should see an application like this:

TODO

• Ajax post deletion from index view
• Add attachments
• Add comments
• Add editor credentials and a user model with role
• Add a way to add and police user privileges by role so only admins can edit the Tags
• Make editor HTML5-rich
• Lots more unit tests (only domains are tested now)
• Integration tests

@nullset2 (2017)