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What is the most popular Groovy library, framework, or a tool? I surveyed 308 Groovy community members, and here are the results.

It’s been a week since GR8Conf EU 2019 is over, so it is the right time to write some recap of this outstanding event. It was my first time at GR8Conf, both as a speaker and an attendee. I spent an awesome six days in the beautiful city of Copenhagen, and I brought a lot of good memories back home. I want to share them with you in this short blog post. Enjoy reading!

GR8Conf EU 2019 starts precisely in 13 days (on May 27th). Each year Copenhagen becomes a heart of Groovy vibrant community for 3 days. The conference offers both talks and workshops, focused on Groovy related topics such as upcoming Groovy 3 release, building DSLs, using Micronaut in the cloud-native environment, or testing applications with Spock and Geb, to name a few. And that’s not even a quarter of great stuff you can expect from it. This year you can also attend one of my three talks I’m going to deliver.

In this short blog post, I would like to show you how to set a heap size of the application executed from the native image generated with GraalVM. We will also take a quick look at the effects caused the maximum heap size change.

Ratpack is an excellent tool for building RESTful^[1] applications. However, to benefit most of it, we need to know the tool a little bit better. It applies to Ratpack handler’s mechanism - it is much different compared to what we have learned by using many popular MVC frameworks. In today’s blog post I would like to show you a relatively simple example that confused many newcomers.

The journey inside the exciting world of GraalVM continues. Today I would like to share with you results of running Ratpack on GraalVM experiment. You are going to learn how to build a native binary of a simple "Hello, World!" Ratpack application. In the end we are going to run some benchmarks to see if running GraalVM executable produces better results than running JAR on a regular Oracle JDK.

Unit testing Ratpack handlers has many benefits. In the previous post we have learned how to mock Session object to use it with GroovyRequestFixture. Today instead of mocking we will register SessionModule and then we will use a real session object.

Ratpack allows you unit test handlers using GroovyRequestFixture class. The good thing about this approach is that it does not require running the whole application and you can quickly test if the handler does what you expect. However, if you retrieve objects from Raptack’s registry you will run into a problem - registry in this case is empty.