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(Quick Reference) # 2.3 Creating an Application - Reference Documentation Authors: Graeme Rocher, Peter Ledbrook, Marc Palmer, Jeff Brown, Luke Daley, Burt Beckwith, Lari Hotari Version: 2.3.8 ## 2.3 Creating an Application To create a Grails application you first need to familiarize yourself with the usage of the `grails` command which is used in the following manner:
    grails [command name]
Run create-app to create an application:
    grails create-app helloworld
This will create a new directory inside the current one that contains the project. Navigate to this directory in your console:
    cd helloworld
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