IntelliJ 11 - Grails SDK is not configured

Question

I have recently upgraded my IntelliJ 10 to the latest 11.0.1 version. I am writing grails app and until I was using the older version of IntelliJ everything was fine, howeve

Answer 1

You don't need both Groovy and Grails for Grails project, just use Grails SDK. When creating a new Grails project there is an option to add new SDK, select the home path of your Grails installation and it will be configured automatically as a Global Library and this library will be added as a dependency to your module.

Grails library configuration contains all the jars from GRAILS_HOME\dist and GRAILS_HOME\lib, plus all the jars from the src directory.

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In other words, it's not configured as a framework, it's just a library with all the jars from Grails distribution added to the module dependencies.

Answer 2

Each time I restart IntelliJ, version 13.1.2, it loses the SDK configuration. If I right-click on the project and "Add Framework Support" I can choose the SDK that is already configured and it will begin functioning properly. When it loses this setting, it won't allow me to compile or launch the app with grails. I reject the ideas to recreate the project, (been there/done that) as I have many dependent modules I have to verify and I lose all my run configurations that I've setup manually. I'm posting the "Add framework support" step here so it might help someone else; hopefully a more permanent solution for you, but its temporary in my situation