The first step to getting up and running with Grails is to install the distribution. To do so follow these steps:
- Download a binary distribution of Grails and extract the resulting zip file to a location of your choice
- Set the GRAILS_HOME environment variable to the location where you extracted the zip
- On Unix/Linux based systems this is typically a matter of adding something like the following
export GRAILS_HOME=/path/to/grails
to your profile
- On Windows this is typically a matter of setting an environment variable under
My Computer/Advanced/Environment Variables
- Now you need to add the
bin
directory to your PATH
variable:
- On Unix/Linux base system this can be done by doing a
export PATH="$PATH:$GRAILS_HOME/bin"
- On windows this is done by modifying the
Path
environment variable under My Computer/Advanced/Environment Variables
If Grails is working correctly you should now be able to type
grails
in the terminal window and see output similar to the below:
Welcome to Grails 1.0 - http://grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: /Developer/grails-1.0
No script name specified. Use 'grails help' for more info