Installing Groovy and Grails on the Eee PC

Have an ASUS Eee PC?

Want to run Groovy and Grails on it? Shown here running the Groovy Console and also Grails (including the database, web container and Grails which itself includes Hibernate and Spring) all in 512M of memory.

Installing Java

Given the relatively humble processor in the Eee PC, you probably want to use Java 6. Install it as per these instructions. This is a disk vs speed trade-off.

Installing Groovy

Then download and install the Groovy linux distribution

Installing Grails

You might also want to grab Grails and install that too.