grails Getting started with grails Creating an application

Example

To create a Grails application, use the grails create-app command. The following command creates a Grails application, named myapp in the current directory:

grails create-app fancy-app

Running it, is as simple as visiting the, newly created, application directory:

cd fancy-app

and then

grails run-app 
// in order to run the app on a different port, e.g. 8888, use this instead
grails run-app -port 8888
// in order to run the app with a secure communication
grails run-app -https