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This release has been superseded - Please see http://grails.codehaus.org/Selenium+plugin for the latest release information. I'm a big fan of Selenium - it lets me test my web applications easily, quickly, and inside the browser. Now I've created a Grails plugin to bring the efficiency of Selenium to Grails projects easily. When you install this plugin, it will download the Selenium-Core distribution (currently version 0.8.3 - 1.5MB) and extract it into your grails application (into <grails project>/web-app/selenium/core). Now you simply create your Selenium tests - putting them in <grails project>/web-app/selenium/tests. This plugin will automatically generate your test suite by listing all of the files in the selenium/tests directory. You can create tests as standard HTML as per the selenium documentation (and easily created using SeleniumIDE ). Or, you can for-go the HTML for pipe delimited text files (*.psv) - this plugin will convert the pipe delimited fil

I run Linux ( Ubuntu 7.10) as my desktop operating system, and it's working out well. However, every time I upgrade Grails I forget to make the script in $GRAILS_HOME/bin executable and get this error: prule@dev2:~/workspace/film-suggestions-grails$ grails clean Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/groovy/grails/cli/support/GrailsStarter So, if you find yourself with this cryptic message, it is time to RTFM - the installation instructions actually point out: If you get an error message, try to chmod +x the grails script inside the bin directory. When I googled this exception I got unrelated stuff. Hopefully now if you search for this you'll find this post and be up and running fast. Note:  I experience this problem because I always download the zip distribution. If you get the tar.gz binary, extracting this will preserve the correct file permissions.

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