Today I started my fourth attempt to build and run a simple Hello World Application in Groovy. I failed using Grails 0.4 and 0.5.something because it just did not work and I did not get any help. Because these were premature version I tried using grails 1.0.rc4, but on my new machine. It failed too. But as I know now, because of configuration and windows permission issues.

Now I was successful! But it is very hard if you try to develop grails, while being no local admin. The problem is not Grails itself, but my lack of windows knowledge. I ended up, with nearly all windows runing as admin, except the browser.

I also stumpled upon different problems. I could solve them together with our friend Google, but I think I needed two hours to get my very simple CRUD application working.

My conclusion up to now: Grails has to be easier to start with.