Command Line Usage in grails

Grails incorporates the powerful build system Gant, which is a Groovy wrapper around Apache Ant.

The basic usage scenario is:

grails [environment]* [command name]

Grails searches in the following directories for Gant scripts to execute:

• USER_HOME/.grails/scripts
• PROJECT_HOME/scripts
• PROJECT_HOME/plugins/*/scripts
• GRAILS_HOME/scripts

If multiple matches are found Grails will give you a choice of which one to execute.

You can specify the environment that the command executes in with an optional environment parameter, either with one of the built-in environment names:

grails dev run-app
grails test run-app
grails prod run-app

Or using a -D argument if the name is not one of the three standard names:

grails -Dgrails.env=uat run-app

Refer to the user guide section on The Command Line for more information.