Using the Grails Console

Thanks to Kwang Ho Lee for this

Using the console is very powerful, your console actually runs within your current
environment so it is a very powerful place to rapidly prototype code.

Start the console with something like this, allows you to attach to any environment

  @echo off
  set JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
  grails -Dgrails.env=dev console

Then from within the console you have access to domain objects and the service objects. Just import domain objects and do a getBean to obtain the service objects

  import domain.*
  def aService = grailsApplication.mainContext.getBean('aService')
  def dlr = Dealer.findByDealerId('XXX')
  def qs = aService.bigFinder(dlr)