JetBrains has just announced the upcoming release on Monday, December 17 of JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails developers and Ruby plugin 1.0 for productive Ruby development. With JetGroovy, IntelliJ IDEA brings its award-winning, productivity-boosting features to Groovy and Grails and provides unsurpassed Groovy support in the Java IDE.
Even as the plugins were being developed, they garnered plenty of positive feedback from users all around the world. "Impressions are excellent!", "That saves so much time!", "Mixing Groovy & Java in the same codebase is completely seamless," - this is what developers have been saying about JetGroovy, which has come a long way towards making Grails a first class IDE citizen.