15 Jun 2009

Checking for plugin updates

If you're anything like me you probably like to keep all your Grails plugins updated to the latest versions. It's quite easy to miss a release announcement and not realise there's a new version available. Although grails list-plugins will list out the available versions and what version you currently have installed it doesn't really highlight the plugins you could upgrade. I threw this script together this morning to do exactly that. It will simply check the plugin versions you have installed against all configured repositories and notify you of any that could be updated.
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7 comments:

  1. Burt15 June 2009 at 18:32

    That's pretty slick - you should submit this to the Grails JIRA to be included as a core script.

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  2. Dean Del Ponte15 June 2009 at 19:40

    I love the script... so, how does one execute it?

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  3. Rob15 June 2009 at 20:28

    put it in your project script directory then use `grails check-plugin-versions`

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  4. Trevor Burnham9 July 2009 at 18:55

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  5. Trevor Burnham9 July 2009 at 18:56

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  6. Trevor Burnham9 July 2009 at 19:03

    Works beautifully! Thanks for doing this. Definitely should be in the Grails core.

    My only suggestion would be that the results list should include a column with the plugin's URL, even if it's just http://www.grails.org/plugin/plugin-name, so that you can go right there to check out the new features/documentation.

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  7. Rob7 November 2009 at 15:21

    I committed the script to the Grails core today. I did change the name so you need to use 'grails list-plugin-updates'.

    That's a really nice idea about including the documentation URL, I'll see if I can do that.

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