how to find your project current versions in grails

Question

I want to know the versions of the software used while developing the project, Suppose If there is an existing project In grails ,so I want to know the version of grails as well as version of Groovy for that project

Asaph

To get the Groovy version anywhere in the app, you can use GroovySystem.getVersion() or just GroovySystem.version – Palaeozoology

Answer 1

Metadata regarding a project in Grails is kept in application.properties.

Within this file you will find the version of Grails used for the project under the key app.grails.version.

The version of Groovy used however is not kept in this file and is determined by the version of Grails being used. To determine the version of Groovy used by a specific version of Grails visit the introduction section of the Grails documentation.

edit

As pointed out in another answer, if you have target version of Grails already downloaded you can search for the version of Groovy being used by that version of Grails.

*nix

$ cd grails-X.X.X 
$ find . -name "groovy*jar"

win32

> cd grails-x.x.x
> dir /s "groovy*.jar"

Sorghum

Answer 2

If you already have a project and want to learn which grails version it uses. You can find it in gradle.properties file. The content of the file is like the following

grailsVersion=4.0.1
gorm.version=7.0.2.RELEASE

Antler

Answer 3

From controllers/services:

def appVersion=Metadata.current.'app.grails.version'
def appName=Metadata.current.'app.name'

From gsp:

App Version <g:meta name="app.version"/> 
Built with Grails <g:meta name="app.grails.version"/> 

Added extra information to figure out a grails application version from raw text files :

If you have a grails 3 application, you should find a build.gradle in the main root of your application folder:

version "0.1" According to this grails 3 project the version of this application is 0.1

Grails version is 3.1.1 according to gradle.properties

On a grails 2 project you will find application.properties in the main project root:

According to this grails 2 project

grails version is 2.4.4 App version is 0.1

Violetavioletta

I get the error No such property: Metadata for class for appVersion – Karrikarrie

the above was for grails 2 are you using it on grails 3 ? grails.github.io/grails-doc/3.0.x/ref/Tags/meta.html – Violetavioletta

if i knew which version of grails i used then i would not look at this question. The link you gave only shows printing for GSP not for controllers. – Karrikarrie

@Karrikarrie take a look at my updated answer, its how you manually can find all that out – Violetavioletta

Answer 4

As of Grails 3, this is:

Version <g:meta name="info.app.version"/>

Notice the info. http://docs.grails.org/3.0.17/ref/Tags/meta.html

Mitzimitzie

Answer 5

use application.properties in the root of the grails application

Nels

Answer 6

To find out which version of groovy is used with particular version of grails I always use simple find:

$ cd grails-X.X.X 
$ find . -name "groovy*jar"

Maybe I'm just too lazy to dig into websites... ;-)

Decerebrate

Assuming 1. You are running *nix and 2. You have the version of Grails downloaded. – Sorghum

Answer 7

You can see application name,grails version,application version from application.properties file of grails project

Deedee

Answer 8

I face the same issue, I found simplest way to find version by simple command. run

grails clean

then it prints
Welcome to Grails 1.3.7 - http://grails.org/

Melt

This is the version of Grails currently in use on the command line, not the version required by a project. – Blather