Too Many Languages!
ARGH! I've been bounced between languages. It's driving me NUTS. This is a comparison of how to do something in each to help me map between them. There is definitely…
Grails—Unit Testing View Rendering (with custom TagLib namespace quirk)
Background GroovyPageUnitTestMixin From the Grails guide, testing a view in a unit test involves: Annotating the Specification with: @TestMixin(GroovyPageUnitTestMixin). Calling render(view: '...', model: ...) or render(template: '...', model: ...) whose…
Spring Boot on Scala
Using Spring Boot on Scala Assumption This example uses a project generated/seeded via Activator using the "minimal-scala" template. However, any project using SBT will probably work just as well. Add Spring…
Spring Boot using multiple datasources
I cannot believe how little info there is on using multiple Datasources in Spring Boot. Out of the box, Spring Boot makes it very easy to configure the default Datasource: tweak…
Spring Boot Command Line program
Command line program w/ Spring Boot To write a command line program (e.g. launched w/ static void main(String args[])), have the main application class implements org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner and implement the function:…
EC2: “chmod ugo+rw ~” breaks SSH
"chmod go+rw ~" breaks SSH Quick note: running chmod go+rw /home/ec2-user could break subsequent attempts to SSH into the EC2 instance. When all the usual suspects regarding SSH identity files,…
Spring boot w/ Thymeleaf, jQuery & jQuery UI, and Bootstrap
A more typical/modern setup would be to replace JSP with one of the template engines and JS and styling libraries: Thymeleaf as the templating engine jQuery as the JavaScript library…