Installing Grails on Linux

Before installing or using Grails, set JAVA_HOME environment variable:

1. Add the following to  ~/.profile

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_27/
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_27/bin
Location will be where JDK is installed to.

2. Log out and back in again, run echo $JAVA_HOME and echo $PATH to confirm. Also check by typing java -version.

To install Grails:

1. Download grails from http://www.grails.org/Download
2. Extract the archive into a home directory. Typically /usr/local in Linux
3. Append a reference to grails as a variable, as with JAVA_HOME above

export GRAILS_HOME=/usr/local/grails-1.3.7/
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/grails-1.3.7/bin

Location path will be the directory you saved the extracted files to.

4. Log out and back in again.
5. Type grails in a terminal window to test. You should see:


Welcome to Grails 1.3.5 - http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: /home/lee/grails-1.3.5

No script name specified. Use 'grails help' for more info or 'grails interactive' to enter interactive mode

You can now begin writing grails applications