Installation from Download

Prerequisites

In order to start using Grails you need to have the following:

• An installation of Java 1.4 or higher and have set your JAVA_HOME variable to the install location

Steps

• Download the latest Grails release
• Extract the archive into an appropriate location
• Create a GRAILS_HOME environment variable that points to the path where you extracted the archive (eg C:\grails on Windows or ~/grails on Unix)
• Append a reference to the "bin" directory within the Grails directory to your PATH variable (eg %GRAILS_HOME%\bin on Windows or $GRAILS_HOME\bin on Unix)
• Type "grails" at the command line, if a help message is displayed you are ready to start using Grails!

Installation from CVS

Prerequisites

In order to start using Grails from CVS you need to have the following:

• An installation of Java 1.4 or higher and have set your JAVA_HOME variable to the install location
• A working installation of Apache Ant 1.6.5 or higher

Steps

• Checkout Grails from the CVS repository
• Set the GRAILS_HOME environment variable to the checkout location
• Add the "%GRAILS_HOME%\bin" directory to your PATH environment variable
• Go to the %GRAILS_HOME% directory and type "ant" to build Grails
• That's it! Start developing in Grails!

Linux/Solaris/OSX/UNIX users should make the grails and ant executables executable immediately after running ant: chmod u+x $GRAILS_HOME/bin/grails $GRAILS_HOME/ant/bin/ant