Grails Tutorial for Beginners - Display Data from the Database

May 01, 2014 Beginner

The most common thing we want to do in Grails is to read data from the database and display it to the user. This post is a simple walk-through on how to accomplish this.

Grails Tutorial for Beginners - Form Submission and Saving Data to the Database

May 01, 2014 Beginner

HTML Forms are usually used to gather data from users. This post will show how to make use of forms to save data to the database.
This example will render a form that looks like this:

And on click of save, will save the data to the person table.

Grails Tutorial for Beginners - Introduction to GORM

Nov 29, 2013 Beginner

GORM is half the reason why I use Grails as my default choice in implementing new projects. Using it just makes implementation of business logic a breeze. Working with a database becomes so easy.
GORM is Grails' object relational mapping (ORM) implementation, which sits on top of the very popular Hibernate framework. If you are familiar with Hibernate, then you can pick up GORM in an instant. Don't worry otherwise as GORM is straightforward and easy to learn.