Grails (Groovy on Rails) Web framework based on the Groovy It is intended to be a high-productivity framework by following the "coding by convention" paradigm, providing a stand-alone development environment and hiding much of the configuration detail from the developer. You need setup GRAILS_HOME environment variable; this SlackBuild provides one for sh and csh. You can logout and login again or simply run: # source /etc/profile.d/grails.sh