Method on class [] was used outside of a Grails application. If running in the context of a test using the mocking API or bootstrap Grails correctly.

 java.lang.IllegalStateException: Method on class [com.willis.heimdall.Booking] was used outside of a Grails application. If running in the context of a test using the mocking API or bootstrap Grails correctly.  
      at com.willis.heimdall.BookingIntegSpec.test saving a booking to the db(BookingIntegSpec.groovy:24)  

 I recently had this error on one of my simple examples. A real facepalm moment when I look back in retrospect but ho hum, the fix is nice and easy.

Broken Code:

	package com.willis.heimdall
	import org.joda.time.DateTime
	import spock.lang.Shared
	import spock.lang.Specification
	/**
	* Integration tests for the Booking model
	* @author Sion Williams
	*/
	class BookingIntegSpec extends Specification {
	@Shared def today = new DateTime()
	@Shared def todayPlusWeek = today.plusWeeks(1)
	def 'test saving a booking to the db'() {
	given: 'a new booking booking'
	def booking = new Booking(name: 'my booking',
	startTime: today.toDate(),
	endTime: todayPlusWeek.toDate())
	when: 'the booking is saved'
	booking.save()
	then: 'it can be successfully found in the database'
	booking.errors.errorCount == 0
	booking.id != null
	Booking.get(booking.id).name == 'my booking'
	Booking.get(booking.id).startTime == today.toDate()
	Booking.get(booking.id).endTime == todayPlusWeek.toDate()
	}
	}

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Fixed Code:

	package com.willis.heimdall
	import grails.test.mixin.TestFor
	import org.joda.time.DateTime
	import spock.lang.Shared
	import spock.lang.Specification
	/**
	* Integration tests for the Booking model
	* @author Sion Williams
	*/
	@TestFor(Booking)
	class BookingIntegSpec extends Specification {
	@Shared def today = new DateTime()
	@Shared def todayPlusWeek = today.plusWeeks(1)
	def 'test saving a booking to the db'() {
	given: 'a new booking booking'
	def booking = new Booking(name: 'my booking',
	startTime: today.toDate(),
	endTime: todayPlusWeek.toDate())
	when: 'the booking is saved'
	booking.save()
	then: 'it can be successfully found in the database'
	booking.errors.errorCount == 0
	booking.id != null
	Booking.get(booking.id).name == 'my booking'
	Booking.get(booking.id).startTime == today.toDate()
	Booking.get(booking.id).endTime == todayPlusWeek.toDate()
	}
	}

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Note here that we have told Grails what we are testing with the @TestFor() annotation so that it can set up the relevant mocks and stubs in the background.

Securing Git repositories

Edit .git/config in the [receive] section:

	# no rewriting history
	denyNonFastForwards = true
	# no deleting history
	denyDeletes = true
	# check object consistency
	fsckObjects = true

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