We put together a book wish list for our Grails, Groovy / AngularJS project.

Sharing it here:

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A couple things I’ve been working on lately:

• A Ratpack Primer – https://github.com/tomaslin/ratpack-primer/blob/master/README.md
• Grails Test Recipes – https://github.com/tomaslin/grails-test-recipes/blob/master/README.md

Instead of using the Heroku buildpack, we can easily deploy ratpack applications into Cloud Foundry using the built-in java 7 support.

Since the Gradle application plugin builds a complete Java application, we can simply upload this application to Cloud Foundry and run it.

The one difference between this approach and a buildpack-based one is that you build the application in your local machine and deploy the files to Cloud Foundry instead of trying to do it all remotely.

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