Grails auto reload functionality in run-app on a custom environment

Question

When running a custom environment with grails via grails -Dgrails.env=custom run-app it appears that the auto reload / hot deploy is turned off, does anyone know how to arbi

Answer 1

The flag you want is "disable.auto.recompile", ex:

grails -Dgrails.env=custom -Ddisable.auto.recompile=false run-app

Answer 2

solve the problem with the name change of my folder containing the project ... this time a name that had spaces ... since quite the spaces everything started to work well

Answer 3

I resolved this by adding the following to my env(custom in this case) Config.groovy:

    custom {

    disable.auto.recompile=false
    grails.gsp.enable.reload=true
}

You can also add the -reloading flag to your run config:

grails -reloading -Dgrails.env=custom  run-app

Make sure it is the first arg!

Right-click your project -> Run as -> Run configurations

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