Grails TextMate bundle is being improved

I am working on a grails app (more info to come), as such I am making some long needed improvements to the Grails TextMate bundle. If you are using this, you might want to subscribe to the bundle changes feed.

I have made two changes already; a snippet for the <g:render> tag in GSPs, and a command to run a single test case (the currently open file in TM).

Groovy & Grails TextMate Bundles

I am now maintaining the Groovy and Grails bundles for TextMate. The bundles are available from the bundle repository. It's been fun learning the innards of TextMate's bundle system. I have gone from a regex monkey to a ninja in the last few weeks. There is a lot to be said for learning by doing.

I realise now I should have been detailing the features as I added them. If you are interested, you can always see the svn change logs, hear and here.

Note: I am currently working on a branch of the groovy bundle as I am making some pretty drastic changes. I plan to merge it back in to the trunk soon.

Grails JCaptcha Plugin

An app I am developing at work with Grails called for a captcha thingy to prevent automated bots from using the service. Turns out JCaptcha is the business for captcha solutions in the Java world (in my opinion anyway). Two main points sold me: Spring Framework friendly, and a cleanly modularised design. Better documentation wouldn't hurt, but maybe they will get to that after the official 1.0 release.

Anyway, I took the time to make a JCaptcha plugin for grails that makes it almost too easy to use captcha tests in your grails app.