2.3 Creating an Application

To create a Grails application you first need to familiarize yourself with the usage of the grails command which is used in the following manner:

  1. grails <<command name>>

Run create-app to create an application:

  1. grails create-app helloworld

This will create a new directory inside the current one that contains the project. Navigate to this directory in your console:

  1. cd helloworld