1) Download Grails - http://www.grails.org/Download   (approx 30MB zip file)

2) I have extracted the contents of the zip into c:\grails\

(figure 1 - grails folder screenshot)

3) Make an environment variable called GRAILS_HOME. This needs to be the path where you extracted the zip file (for example, c:\grails\)

(figure 2 - grail envronment variable screenshot)

 4) Add the grails bin folder to the environment variable PATH. For example, %GRAILS_HOME%\bin

5) Now Download Java  http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ (approx 78 MB file)

6) Install Java (for example into folder c:\jdk1.6\)

7) Create a JAVA_HOME environment variable that points to the path where you have installed Java

8) Add the Java bin folder to the environment variable PATH. For example, %JAVA_HOME%\bin

9) The final task is to open a command line (type cmd to open a command prompt)

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(figure 3 - grails command prompt - welcome message)

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