java - Grails 2.3.0 Auto-reloading not working

Question

I recently upgrade our project to grails 2.3.0. Everything works fine except I've been having problems with auto-reload not working whenever I make changes to our code. This include all projects artefacts - controllers, domain, services, gsps, css and javascript files.

My older versions of grails work correctly and reloads and recompile every time I make a change.

I know this question is popular and I have searched Jira, Nabble and here for days now but none of what I have found have been able to solve my problem (I've even tried to add quotes like Peter suggested in this thread http://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-7936 and also this thread Grails Project Not Auto Reloading did not help).

Am currently running grails on a Macbook pro with the following settings:

• grails version 2.3.0
• Java version "1.7.0_17" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_17-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)
• Running from terminal with Textmate as IDE

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18882589/grails-2-3-0-auto-reloading-not-working

Answer 1

It seems that in Grails 2.3 the reloading is no longer the default

In Grails 2.3 the reloading agent is no longer on the build system path unless you pass the -reloading flag to the grails command:

grails -reloading run-app

However, you can enable forking in your buildConfig using the following configuration:

forkConfig = [maxMemory: 1024, minMemory: 64, debug: false, maxPerm: 256] 
grails.project.fork = [    
  test: forkConfig, // configure settings for the test-app JVM    
  run: forkConfig, // configure settings for the run-app JVM    
  war: forkConfig, // configure settings for the run-war JVM    
  console: forkConfig // configure settings for the Swing console JVM ]

More information : Forked Execution and the Reloading Agent