console

Purpose

Starts an instance of the Swing graphical Groovy console with an initialized Grails runtime.

Examples

   grails console

Description

Starts the Grails console, which is an extended version of the regular Groovy console. Within the binding of the console there are a couple of useful variables:

• ctx - The Spring ApplicationContext instance
• grailsApplication - The GrailsApplication instance

These are useful as they allow access to the conventions within Grails and interesting beans in the context.

Usage: grails environment* console

Fired Events:

• StatusFinal - When the console is loaded

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