Grails Shell Does Not Recompile Modified Files

Question

I am new to grails and ran into a Grails shell problem not recompiling my classes, although displaying a message about it. That's what I'm doing:

• I have a grails 2.0.0 application that has a class with defined static methods.
• I would like to test some functions from the Grails shell, so I go and run it from the grails project folder as grails shell

• I call a static class method to do the following work as follows:

   import com.mypackage.* MyClass.doWork() 

• If I see some unexpected behavior or a runtime error, I modify the source code accordingly, and the grails shell shows that the change is actually happening: |Compiling 2 source files.

• Then I run the method, but it seems that the method is the same because it gives me the same error, although I'm sure I saved the groovy file.
• So I need to exit shell and start it again. Then the grail picks up the changes.

What am I doing wrong? This seems to be a rather strange expected behavior ...

Answer 1

Only run-app allows default reboot. Run grails -reloading shell to reload modified files. I would use the console, although this was more convenient: grails -reloading console .