Creating a Simple Grails Application

To create the helloworld application, perform both these tasks:

• Creating the helloworld Application

• Creating the hello Controller

For more information on creating Grails applications, see the Grails Quick Start.

Creating the helloworld Application

1. Go to the as-install/grails/samples directory.

2. Run the grails create-app helloworld command.

   The grails create-app command creates an application framework that you can modify.

Creating the hello Controller

1. Go to the as-install/grails/samples/helloworld directory.

2. Run the grails create-controller hello command.

   The grails create-controller command creates a controller file that you can modify.

3. Edit the generated HelloController.groovy file so it looks like this:

   class HelloController {
   
          def world = {
                   render "Hello World!"
           }
       //def index = { }
   }