2.2 Downloading and Installing - Reference Documentation
Authors: Graeme Rocher, Peter Ledbrook, Marc Palmer, Jeff Brown, Luke Daley, Burt Beckwith, Lari Hotari
Version: 3.1.3
2.2 Downloading and Installing
The first step to getting up and running with Grails is to install the distribution.The best way to install Grails on *nix systems is with SDKMAN which greatly simplifies installing and managing multiple Grails versions.For manual installation follow these steps:- Download a binary distribution of Grails and extract the resulting zip file to a location of your choice
- Set the GRAILS_HOME environment variable to the location where you extracted the zip
- On Unix/Linux based systems this is typically a matter of adding something like the following
export GRAILS_HOME=/path/to/grails
to your profile - On Windows this is typically a matter of setting an environment variable under
My Computer/Advanced/Environment Variables
- Then add the
bin
directory to yourPATH
variable: - On Unix/Linux based systems this can be done by adding
export PATH="$PATH:$GRAILS_HOME/bin"
to your profile - On Windows this is done by modifying the
Path
environment variable underMy Computer/Advanced/Environment Variables
grails -version
in the terminal window and see output similar to this:bc.
Grails version: 3.0.0