Grails auto reload functionality in run-app on a custom environment

Question

When running a custom environment with grails via grails -Dgrails.env=custom run-app it appears that the auto reload / hot deploy is turned off, does anyone know how to arbitrarily enable this for any given environment, not just dev, which appears to be the only env where it is actually on by default?

Answer 1

I resolved this by adding the following to my env(custom in this case) Config.groovy:

    custom {

    disable.auto.recompile=false
    grails.gsp.enable.reload=true
}

You can also add the -reloading flag to your run config:

grails -reloading -Dgrails.env=custom  run-app

Make sure it is the first arg!

Right-click your project -> Run as -> Run configurations

Blog post about auto refresh in a Grails custom env

Answer 2

The flag you want is "disable.auto.recompile", ex:

grails -Dgrails.env=custom -Ddisable.auto.recompile=false run-app