I ran into an weird bug today that took awhile to figure out. Basically, I was getting the error when I deployed some grails code to a linux box.

In the error log, this is what showed up:

ERROR view.ScaffoldingViewResolver  - Error generating scaffolded view [/BNice/index]: /opt/grails-1.3.7/src/grails/templates/scaffolding/index.gsp (No such file or directory)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/grails-1.3.7/src/grails/templates/scaffolding/index.gsp (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<;init>;(FileInputStream.java:120)
at org.grails.plugin.resource.DevModeSanityFilter.doFilter(DevModeSanityFilter.groovy:44)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

And, in the HTML response, this is what showed up:

HTTP status 404 - /testapp/WEB-INF/grails-app/views/BNice/index.jsp
type: Status report
message: /testapp/WEB-INF/grails-app/views/BNice/index.jsp
description: The requested resource (/testapp/WEB-INF/grails-app/views/BNice/index.jsp) is not available.

It took a while, but I finally figured out that it had nothing to do with the server setup, but was in fact an issue with the code.

In the project, there was a controller called “BNiceController”. When grails sees to capital letters in the beginning of a name, the CamelCasing of the controller and the views must be exactly like first part of the controller.

Here’s how a normal reference would look for a controller called BeNiceController.

// In the gsp, the controller would be referenced like so:
${createLink(controller: 'beNice')}

// The view would be located in /grails-app/views/beNice/index.gsp

However, if the controller is called BNiceController, this is what you would have to do. Notice, the folder in the views directory is “BNice”.

// In the gsp, the controller would be referenced like so:
${createLink(controller: 'BNice')}

// The view would be located in /grails-app/views/BNice/index.gsp

It’s kind of annoying. I wish this wasn’t the default behavoir.