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The Impetus
The Grails framework is the best web development framework out there right now. One of the things that makes it so impressive is that it has a unique paradigm: leverage existing, proven open-source technologies, but ship them with a set of reasonable defaults and preconfigure them to work well with eachother. The result is something that provides exceedingly fast development while still having a mature core.
Before the Autobase plugin, there simply wasn’t a way to manage databases which fit in that same paradigm. The Liquibase plugin provided a raw way of bolting the excellent Liquibase system onto the side of Grails, but there was a lot of XML and some weird commands and it didn’t really flow with the otherwise smooth Grails development process. The dbmigrate plugin mirrored Rails’s problematic initial swing at database migrations and left you having to hand-code up SQL or write your migrations in Groovy but with no additional help. And if I wanted to deploy my application as a war instead of as a set of files, I’m in real trouble.
This just wouldn’t do. So, being an open source, DIY kinda guy, I set to writing up an alternative. Something which made it easy to handle migrations. Something which supported deployment as a war or as flat files. Something which leveraged a proven open source technology. Something which, in short, followed the Grails paradigm and kicked ass. Autobase is the result.
