Getting Started With Grails

Ok, I have to admit that the title is a little misleading…  This isn’t a traditional “Grails 101″ where you learn how to install the framework and create twitter, ha! This is instead an article about what it means to get started contributing back to the Grails community. I just started doing this a couple months ago, so I thought it would be interesting to blog about the steps required to do so for anyone else that wants to start contributing!

So, how do most people get started with Grails?  They go to grails.org and download the ZIP binary, right?  Sure, this is good, but if that’s all you do then you are kind of missing out.  I would argue that starting out with any new technology, the first thing you should do is build it from scratch!  Wait, what?  Why waste your time building from scratch?  The reason is you need to understand what’s happening under the hood to really become an expert so you can make modifications if needed for your application.  I’m certainly not an expert on Grails (yet!) but I have definitely increased my knowledge about the framework and become a better Grails developer by building Grails from source, examining the source code and contributing patches to the documentation!

So, let’s dive in!

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