debugging grails

[Harm de Laat-2]

Hi,

Sorry for this (maybe) naive question.
How do you guys debug a Grails application within Eclipse?
Do you attach to a remote VM? Or is there a simpler way to debug the Grails framework itself?
Can you give me some suggestions?

Regards,

Harm.

[graemer]

On 13/03/06, Harm de Laat <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for this (maybe) naive question.
> How do you guys debug a Grails application within Eclipse?
I tend to mainly use IntelliJ IDEA, but I have debugged grails in
Ecilpse using the Eclipse WebTools. Simply by creating an app and then
pointing the inbuilt tomcat server's context path to the "tmp/war"
directory of the app I want to debug.

You then just run the server in debug mode

> Do you attach to a remote VM? Or is there a simpler way to debug the Grails
> framework itself?
Not at the moment no.

Graeme

> Can you give me some suggestions?
>
> Regards,
>
> Harm.
>
>

[Steven Devijver]

I think it makes sense to add a special target to the ant file that
starts Jetty in debug mode.

Steven

On 3/13/06, Harm de Laat <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry for this (maybe) naive question.
> How do you guys debug a Grails application within Eclipse?
> Do you attach to a remote VM? Or is there a simpler way to debug the Grails
> framework itself?
> Can you give me some suggestions?
>
> Regards,
>
> Harm.
>
>

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[graemer]

On 13/03/06, Steven Devijver <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I think it makes sense to add a special target to the ant file that
> starts Jetty in debug mode.
Yes this is possible too to support remote debugging. Something else
on the todo list

Graeme

>
> Steven
>
> On 3/13/06, Harm de Laat <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry for this (maybe) naive question.
> > How do you guys debug a Grails application within Eclipse?
> > Do you attach to a remote VM? Or is there a simpler way to debug the Grails
> > framework itself?
> > Can you give me some suggestions?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Harm.
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Steven Devijver
> Senior Consultant
> Interface21
> Spring Services from the Source
> http://www.interface21.com
>
> Co-author, "Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow"
> (February 2006, with Seth Ladd, Darren Davison, and Colin Yates)
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159059584X
>
> Interface21 NL B.V.
> Donker Curtiusstraat 7-400c
> 1051JL Amsterdam
> The Netherlands
> Phone: [phone]
> Fax: [phone]
> Mail: [hidden email]
> Skype: devijvers
>

[Harm de Laat-2]

On 3/13/06, Graeme Rocher <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 13/03/06, Harm de Laat <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for this (maybe) naive question.
> How do you guys debug a Grails application within Eclipse?
I tend to mainly use IntelliJ IDEA, but I have debugged grails in
Ecilpse using the Eclipse WebTools. Simply by creating an app and then
pointing the inbuilt tomcat server's context path to the "tmp/war"
directory of the app I want to debug.

Okay, how exactly do you do this?
I checked out grails from CVS into my Workspace.
In my workspace I created an (grails) application using the command line.

I cannot find the tmp/war directory you are talking about....

Any suggestions?

[graemer]

On 13/03/06, Harm de Laat <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> On 3/13/06, Graeme Rocher <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > On 13/03/06, Harm de Laat <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Sorry for this (maybe) naive question.
> > > How do you guys debug a Grails application within Eclipse?
> > I tend to mainly use IntelliJ IDEA, but I have debugged grails in
> > Ecilpse using the Eclipse WebTools. Simply by creating an app and then
> > pointing the inbuilt tomcat server's context path to the "tmp/war"
> > directory of the app I want to debug.
>
> Okay, how exactly do you do this?
> I checked out grails from CVS into my Workspace.
> In my workspace I created an (grails) application using the command line.
>
> I cannot find the tmp/war directory you are talking about....
>
> Any suggestions?

You need to package the application first by typing "grails dev
package" this will create the tmp dir. Sorry there aren't many docs on
this at the moment!

Graeme

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