Groovy: Start from the Scratch

You have nothing but an installed Ubuntu Box, a JDK and no other clue ?

• Download the latest stable Groovy release from groovy.codehaus.org
• Unzip the file (maybe to your home folder) and keep the release name, like groovy-1.6.7
• Modify your .bashrc (gedit ~/.bashrc), usually you need to add this:
  

  ### GROOVY
  export GROOVY_HOME=/home/whateveryourusername/groovy-1.6.7
  export PATH=$PATH:$GROOVY_HOME/bin
  

• Open a new shell and type groovy -version and you should get something like this:
  Groovy Version: 1.6.7 JVM: 1.6.0_16
• Start the console with groovyConsole
  
  

  The Groovy Console

• You are ready, lets get rolling with some snippets.

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