Grails 2.3.5 generate-all doesn't exist but it's in the documentation

Question

Should it work or has it been removed?

Here's the commands that fail:

grails create-app my_new_app
cd my_new_app
grails generate-all my_new_app.Book

Results in

Script 'GenerateAll' not found, did you mean:.5
   1) CreateFilters
   2) CreateController
   3) CreateIntegrationTest
   4) InstallTemplates
   5) CreateApp_
> Please make a selection or enter Q to quit:

This is according to the documentation at http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/gettingStarted.html#generatingAnApplication

grails -version
Grails version: 2.3.5

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '14 at 20:35

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You need to run

grails compile

Prior to generate-all, as the scaffolding is now in a plugin

answered Feb 17 '14 at 20:35

tim_yates

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That seems correct, but don't I also need to run `grails create-domain-class book` before `generate-all`? Simply running compile first gave me the error: "No domain class found for name Book." – Jason Feb 17 '14 at 20:53
@Jason yeah generate all just makes controllers and views for a specified existing domain http://grails.org/doc/latest/ref/Command%20Line/generate-all.html – tim_yates Feb 17 '14 at 21:01

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 17 '14 at 20:19

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Use the following commands

grails create-app my_new_app
cd my_new_app
grails refresh-dependencies
grails create-domain-class book
grails generate-all my_new_app.Book

This worked for me. I got the idea from the Grails forum: http://grails.1312388.n4.nabble.com/Generate-scripts-missing-from-grails-2-3-3-td4651739.html

answered Feb 17 '14 at 20:19

Jason

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As Jason mentions in the comment on Jon Polaski's answer, you have to add compile ":scaffolding:2.1.2" to the plugins section of BuildConfig.groovy before you can use this solution. 2.1.2 was the latest as of writing and it worked with grails 2.5.5 (scaffolding:2.0.0 did not work with 2.5.5 and gave errors similar to `plugins/scaffolding-2.0.0/src/java/org/codehaus/groovy/grails/scaffolding/view/ScaffoldedGroovyPageView.java:87: error: method createResponseWriter in class GroovyPageView cannot be applied to given types;`) – Colin D Jul 11 '16 at 17:32

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 08 '14 at 01:56

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The scaffolding feature was pulled from core in Grails 2.3.*. Add the scaffolding plugin to BuildConfig.groovy to restore generate-all and static scaffolding functionality.

compile ":scaffolding:2.0.0"

answered May 08 '14 at 01:56

Jon Polaski

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I did add that to the BuildConfig and still got the errors. See my answer and @tim_yates answer for what had to happen _after_ this dependency was added. – Jason May 09 '14 at 02:24

Grails 2.3.5 generate-all doesn't exist but it's in the documentation

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