Jakob Külzer Ninja Coding Monkey goes Canada

Running Grails in custom Environment

This took me quite a while to figure out yesterday, so I just have to document it here. Grails sports three environments per default: development, testing and production. To create a testing WAR file you simply type this:

grails test war

Everything is fine when you stick to them. But if you created another environment, e.g. "foo", the same line wont work anymore:

grails foo war

Welcome to Grails 1.0.3 - http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: /home/jakob/grails-1.0.3

Base Directory: /home/jakob/workspace/fooproject
Script Foo not found.
Run 'grails help' for a complete list of available scripts.

This is annoying but easy to solve. All you have to do is to provide the name of the environment as a variable:

grails -Dgrails.env=foo war

Thats it.