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My last attempt at running Grails 1.1 beta2 on IntelliJ 8.0.1 didn’t work out so well. I ran the EAP version for a while, but had some issues building grails itself, specifically trying to run unit tests.

So, I did some digging through the bug tracker and subversion for the plugin. I also spent some time learning about IntelliJ plugins and reading newsgroups about what others have tried. The result is a patched version of the plugin that seems to be working. Here is the file if you want to try it. Unzip and replace the contents in your INTELLIJ_HOME/plugins/Groovy directory. Again, use at your own risk and backup your existing plugins/Groovy directory.

If you are interested, here are the details.

• Running on a Mac with java 1.5
• Check out code from http://svn.jetbrains.org/idea/Trunk/bundled/groovy
• Revert back to revision 21543. 21544 breaks something. Revision 21538 fixed the initial issue I saw, where the grails-1.1-beta2 library was not recognized, as reported in GRVY-1933.
• Add in revision 21697, which fixes GRVY-1943 so the app can run.
• Setup IntelliJ 8.0.1 build 9164 with the dev package
• Configure IntelliJ to build the plugin. These instructions helped. Groovy module configured to use Groovy-1.6_RC1. RT module configured to use groovy-1.5.7, cause 1.6 didn’t work.
• Build grammer with ant task, run Make and then run ‘Prepare All Plugin Modules for Deployment’.
• Shutdown IntelliJ.
• Remove INTELLIJ_HOME/plugins/Groovy directory. Unzip groovy.zip in INTELLIJ_HOME/plugins directory
• Restart IntelliJ

Hope it works for you and Happy New Year.

Grails-1.1-beta2 does not work correctly with the jetgroovy plugin in intellij. I am able to add a global library for Grails 1.1 beta2, but it not saved in the project facet. The most apparent problem for me is that the ‘Run grails target’ shortcut is not available. See this thread and this bug for more details. According to the details, it is fixed. However, I don’t see an update to the jetgroovy plugin. I am running version 8.0.1 of Intellij on Mac OSX.

So I tried the EAP 9572 version to see if it included the fix that was reported in Jira. The bundled jetgroovy plugin appears to have the update. Yippee. Glad I didn’t have to build it myself according to the wiki,

Here is the interesting part that you may care about. I zipped up the plugins/Groovy folder and replaced the old version in Intellij 8.0.1. It seems to have fixed it for the stable version as well. Here is the file until JetBrains has something better. Use at your own risk, perhaps making a backup of the old plugins/Groovy folder.

UPDATE It appears there are issues with copying the plugin back to the 8.0.1 release. Loading the file inside grails-app just hangs. However, the EAP version is working just fine so far. Let me know if you have success getting it work in the stable version.

UPDATE 2 See this for a patched version that works better.