Configuring Grails on Ubuntu Linux

I’ve recently installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and in order to get Grails running, had to do the following:

  1. Edit /etc/environment and set up environment vars for Groovy, Grails and Java:
    <code>
    GRAILS_HOME=/INSTALL_DIR/grails-0.2
    GROOVY_HOME=/INSTALL_DIR/groovy-1.0-jsr-05
    JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.06
    export GRAILS_HOME GROOVY_HOME JAVA_HOME
    PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11: /usr/games:$GRAILS_HOME/bin:$GROOVY_HOME/bin"
    </code>

    This file was new to me on Ubuntu, I’m used to defining env vars in a .profile file. In order to get the new vars setup, source the file – ‘source environment’.

  2. After the previous step, the included script files with Grails needed to be changed to executable in order to run. cd into the grails directory, and then ‘chmod +x’ for both INSTALL_DIR/bin/grails and INSTALL_DIR/ant/bin/ant

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