Grails 3.3 has Spock 1.1

You’ll be glad to know that milestone 1 of Grails 3.3 has been released 3 days ago — and is also already available through SDKMAN!.

Not only has it upgraded its dependencies to Hibernate 5.1.5, Spring Framework 4.3.7, Spring Boot 1.5.3 and Gradle 3.5, but it also finally ships with the latest Spock 1.1 testing framework.

Groovy: Grouping using groupBy vs collectEntries

Since Groovy 1.0 we have groupBy and collectEntries to group elements from a Collection together into a Map. I had a little fun with them last week.