Grails Eclipse plugin

Question

I\'ve seen various posts on SO criticising the Eclipse Grails plugin, and am wondering if anyone has found a way to work productively with Grails within Eclipse?

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Answer 1

I'd recommend using NetBeans 6.7 for Groovy/Grails development or TextMate (Mac only). NetBeans 6.7 works great and should be able to tide you over until the Eclipse plugin comes out. Who knows, you may even like NetBeans more.

Answer 2

I've been experimenting with the NetBeans 6.7 release candidate after reading over the Eclipse documentation. So far it is a pretty nice way to work with Grails. You do have to configure your own hotkeys and such so that running your tests can be done in 2 key strokes.

I am having trouble with some of the claimed enhancements. My code completion isn't working on my own methods, that's the single most annoying thing so far (at least, that isn't just a consequence of me being used to statically typed Java). I need t figure out how to execute just a single test etc.

As someone that used NetBeans 7 and 8 years ago, I like what I see a lot better now. I ran screaming to Eclipse back in 03, but Netbeans seems to have matured quite a lot.