There's 'Reference' links as well as the obligatory mailing lists, wiki, issue tracker and SVN pointers.
The content of the main page bares some testimonials including one that says:
"I found Grails and it was like the heavens opening and angels singing "AAAAaaaaawh". - Les Hazlewood
Wow, that's quite a testimonial. So far I haven't heard the angels, but I'll let you all know, the moment I do.
Nevertheless, while listening out for the angels, I followed the instructions from the Installation page and all went according to plan. Installed Grails, set some necessary environment variables and typed 'grails' in expectation of a help screen and guess what happened... it worked! Pleasantly surprised by this, since a lot of open source projects I've tried DON'T work 'out of the box'.
One point to note is that from previous sandbox activity on my part, I already have Groovy installed on my machine, so I wonder if that installation would have still worked if Groovy wasn't installed. *shrug* I'm not going to investigate that further. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. *grin*
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I am curious, what are some of the things you really like about the current grails.org site and what would you like to see?
Hi Ben,
Well as I indicated, I like that the page is neat, simple, and intuitive. The documentation links are crucial.
Can't really say there's much that I see missing. Perhaps a 'screenshots' link, showing Grails development in Eclipse with the Grails plug-in (though I use IDEA), perhaps a screenshot of the basic scaffolding as per Jason's book.
One thing that's also not obvious is the plug-in support with Grails, like say, Glen Smith's Groogle plug-in. I haven't quite gotten to that yet, but I'm led to believe there are numerous plug-ins available for Grails, much like the various Gems available to Rails.
Other than that it's a very good site.
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