centos grails

A beginner-friendly guide to installing the Grails web framework on CentOS 6.x using GVM, manual installation, or Git.

Prerequisities

You have to install Groovy (which require JDK). If you don’t have Groovy (And JDK) installed follow those instructions.

Java SDK 1.4+ for Grails 1.0.x and 1.1.x
Java SDK 1.5+ for Grails 1.2 or greater (For this tutorial make sure you have JDK 1.5+ installed)

If you’ve installed groovy using GVM, you can use the GVM to install grails too. use:

gvm install grails

centos grails

The folder we’ll install Grails is: /usr/grails, but you can choose any other as you like.

cd /usr
mkdir grails
cd grails

Here we’ll put the grails files by version.

Visit the download page to get the latest version. as for now it’s 2.3.7

wget http://dist.springframework.org.s3.amazonaws.com/release/GRAILS/grails-2.3.7.zip
unzip grails-2.3.7.zip
rm grails-2.3.7.zip

Install wget & unzip if you don’t yet have them install by: yum install wget unzip

add the following to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_rc (or wherever you init your user environment):

# grails
export GRAILS_HOME=/usr/grails/grails-2.3.7
export PATH=$PATH:$GRAILS_HOME/bin

That’s it

If you want to be updated with latest patches (and bugs) you can clone the git repo.

Prerequisities: you should have JDK installed, your JAVA_HOME set and GIT installed (yum install git).

cd /usr
git clone https://github.com/grails/grails-core
cd grails-core && ./gradlew install

and set your GRAILS_HOME in the ~/.bash_profile (or ~.bash_rc):

# grails
export GRAILS_HOME=/usr/grails-core
export PATH=$PATH:$GRAILS_HOME/bin

If you want to install older branch read here.

Type at command:

grails --version

You should get something like this output (depend on version)

grails-version

That’s It! you have centos grails installed.

Cheers!