Grails 2: A Quick-Start Guide

Summary

We now have a convenient dashboard view to help event organizers and volunteers keep an eye on their event, and we have an easy way for them to get to it. We have security in place so that only authorized users can get to the dashboard. As a bonus, we have a much friendlier and more helpful home page. And while we got all that done, we learned how to create a controller that is not tied to a domain class and use it to populate and access views that span multiple domain classes. We also got some good practice working with GSP views and templates. (Our customer is impressed, too, and that’s always a good thing.)

In the next iteration, we’ll be looking for a good way to add search capabilities to TekDays. This will introduce us to more ...