Yesterday I gave a talk at a the Ruby Jax User Group on Groovy
and Grails with Netbeans , Glassfish and MySQL. The Jacksonville JUG
was invited too, it was held at the hashrocket office , which has
the best view I've ever seen from an office building:

You can dowload the presentation here
Groovy and Grails with Netbeans , Glassfish and MySQL
Content:
Grails Basics and Netbeans 6.5
Domain-driven development with Grails
Orchestrating requests with controllers
Groovy Views with GSP
configuring for MySQL
running on Glassfish
You can read more about the code examples here:
Building a Grails Pet Catalog using Netbeans 6.5 and MySQL
Combining Groovy, Grails, MySQL, and the Java Persistence API
Writing Your First Ruby-on-Rails Web Application
Sample Catalog Application using using JRuby and Rails

You can dowload the presentation here
Groovy and Grails with Netbeans , Glassfish and MySQL
Content:
Grails Basics and Netbeans 6.5
Domain-driven development with Grails
Orchestrating requests with controllers
Groovy Views with GSP
configuring for MySQL
running on Glassfish
You can read more about the code examples here:
Building a Grails Pet Catalog using Netbeans 6.5 and MySQL
Combining Groovy, Grails, MySQL, and the Java Persistence API
Writing Your First Ruby-on-Rails Web Application
Sample Catalog Application using using JRuby and Rails