GRAILS plugin error

Question

All,

I am trying to test my grails app using Hudson. I have in grails I will run the command of test-app -unit and will recieve the following message:

Running script /home/test/grails-1.1.1/scripts/TestApp.groovy Environment set to test

Plugin [hibernate-1.1.1] not installed, resolving..

Reading remote plugin list ...

Error reading remote plugin list [Connection timed out], building locally...

Unable to list plugins, please check you have a valid internet connection: Connection timed out

Reading remote plugin list ... Error reading remote plugin list [Connection timed out], building locally...

Unable to list plugins, please check you have a valid internet connection: Connection timed out

Plugin 'hibernate' was not found in repository. If it is not stored in a configured repository you will need to install it manually. Type 'grails list-plugins' to find out what plugins are available. Finished: FAILURE

I believe the reason for this is that I do not have access to an external network on the server. If I do a list-plugins there is no returns it just times out. I also beleive that this is a grails issue not a hudson issue.

Answer 1

Grails is going to need the Internet somehow to get plugin information. What you might be able to do is get grails installed on a machine that does have access, get all of the plugins you need (i.e. by running what hudson would normally run, test-app or whatever), and then copy over the entire grails installation to $GRAILS_HOME on your hudson machine.

I can't say I've ever tried this, but it seems like it should work.

Answer 2

The answer is the following:

1. navigate to the /path/to/hudson/Jobs/JOBNAME/
2. run - grails install-plugin /location/to/grails-1.1.1/plugins/grails-hibernate-1.1.1.zip

This will install the hibernate plugin for the specific job. This workaround can also be used for other plugins needed.

This has been tested in hudson.