Work with Grails plugins

You can extend the functionality of your Grails application with the Grails plugins downloaded from the Grails repository. Once downloaded, the plugins reside under the plugins directory of your Grails application. Each plugin has the same directory structure as the entire Grails application. The source directories of the installed plugins are included in the source routes and are marked in the module tree view with the icon.

For the sake of better communication with the Grails repository, IntelliJ IDEA provides the plugin manager that enables viewing, installing and uninstalling plugins.

For Grails versions 2.3.0 and later, refer to the Grails documentation.

To open the Grails plugin manager, do one of the following

From the main menu select Tools | Grails | Plugins.
From the context menu of the Project view, choose Grails | Plugins.

To view the available plugins

Open the Grails plugin manager, click the refresh button if necessary, and view the list of plugins in the Grails plugins dialog.
You can also view the list of plugins by running the list-plugins Grails target. To do that, press Ctrl+Alt+G, and type list-plugins in the Run Grails Target dialog box.

To install or uninstall Grails plugins

Open the Grails plugin manager. In the Enable column, select the checkboxes of the plugins to be installed, and clear the checkboxes of the plugins to be uninstalled. Then click Apply Changes.
In the Install/Uninstall Grails plugins dialog box, review the list of plugins. If necessary, select the plugin version. Click OK.
You can also install plugins using the install-plugin Grails target. To do that, press Ctrl+Alt+G, and in the Run Grails Target dialog type install-plugin <plugin name>.

Last modified: 01 August 2022