Grails not reloading in test environment

Question

I'm testing my app in the interactive console, which I access by 'grails-debug test'.

Then I run my integration tests 'test-app integration:' which goes fine.

But when I change any of my controllers that are being tested, the change does not take effect in my tests results, and I have to quit interactive mode and access it again.

How can I make my tests reload my controllers?

P.D.: My question is much motivated by Grails Guard plugin, which indicates in its usage seccion:

'Ensure that the spring reloading agent is active for test-app (it is NOT by default for test-app, only run-app).'

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 28 '12 at 16:30

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Add -reloading to your grails call as the first parameter.

answered Nov 28 '12 at 16:30

Jeff Beck

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Do you know why isn't reloading a default in test environment but it is on dev environment? – Tomas Romero Nov 28 '12 at 19:55
No sorry I'm not really sure. – Jeff Beck Nov 28 '12 at 23:12
This is the default for Grails, only dev environment reloads by default. – Nov 29 '13 at 11:39

Tomas Romero · Answer 2 · 2012-11-28T20:06:19.663

After trying the solution proposed by Jeff Beck, I would like to share some examples to clarify:

grails -reloading -> reload
grails -> reload
grails-debug -reloading -> reload
grails-debug -reloading test -> reload
grails-debug test -> no reload
grails-debug test -reloading -> no reload

I tested this by adding and commenting an exception first in 1 of my controllers and then in 1 of my domain classes, and the reload worked on both.

Grails not reloading in test environment

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