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(Quick Reference) # shell ## Purpose Starts an instance of the Groovy terminal shell with an initialized Grails runtime. ## Examples
    grails shell
## Description Usage:
    grails [environment]* shell
Starts the Grails shell, which is an extended version of the regular Groovy shell. Within the binding of the shell there are a couple of useful variables: `ctx` - The Spring ApplicationContext instance `grailsApplication` - The GrailsApplication instance These are useful as they allow access to the conventions within Grails and Spring beans. Fired Events: `StatusFinal` - When the shell is loaded Example Shell:
    Groovy Shell (1.8.0, JVM: 1.6.0_26)
    Type 'help' or 'h' for help.
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    groovy:000>
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