Chapter 4. Putting the model to work
This chapter covers
- Generating UIs instantly with scaffolding
- Customizing scaffolds for your project
- Using dynamic finders for easy querying
- Advanced query techniques
We spent a lot of time last chapter on the basics of domain modeling. It wasn’t easy defining all those relationships, but it did lay down the fundamentals you’ll need to build on in each new Grails project. In this chapter, we’ll take our new domain knowledge and build a simple UI for our Hubbub application.
You’ll learn how scaffolds can make bootstrapping a UI lightning fast, and how they can be customized to generate a unique look and feel for your application. Then, once you have some experience building basic scaffolds for domain classes, ...
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