Installing Groovy

These instructions describe how to install a binary distribution of Groovy.

first, Download a binary distribution of Groovy and unpack it into some file on your local file system
set your GROOVY_HOME environment variable to the directory you unpacked the distribution
add GROOVY_HOME/bin to your PATH environment variable
set your JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to your JDK. On OS X this is /Library/Java/Home, on other unixes its often /usr/java etc. If you've already installed tools like Ant or Maven you've probably already done this step.

You should now have Groovy installed properly. You can test this by typing the following in a command shell:

Which should create an interactive groovy shell where you can type Groovy statements. Or to run the Swing interactive console type:

To run a specific Groovy script type:

Alternative Installation on Mac OS X

Set up MacPorts

Open Terminal

Search

Results of your search request can come from various sources: the Groovy website itself, the JIRA issues, the API documentation, as well as a few other interesting Groovy-related blogs.