How to start your grails integration tests

I always keep forgetting how to start writing my grails integration tests. I hope this helps someone

class TestISpec extends grails.plugin.spock.IntegrationSpec {
     def 'this should do that'() {}
}

Getting unique commits in a branch ..well almost

To list unique commits in a branch

git log --first-parent --no-merges

For more details checkout http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5720343/using-git-show-all-commits-that-exist-only-on-one-specific-branch-and-not-a
Then you can format the output as follows

git log --first-parent --no-merges --pretty=format:"%H %s"

Then you get something like

3d6995f61c1359e44c98433bb5ed4251798002c3 My Commit

Set Properties File with SED

get unix command exit code

Extract value from string in groovy

Get all tables that have a certain field

select table_name from columns where table_schema = 'mydatabase' and column_name = 'looking_for_this_field';

NoClassDefFoundError

NoClassDefFoundError in Java comes when Java Virtual Machine is not able to find a particular class at runtime which was available during compile time.

Read more: http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/06/noclassdeffounderror-exception-in.html#ixzz2x8LeYeww