Actuallz windows installer made a dir with name “grails” inside my grails installation folder
for example
C:\Grails\grails
and i had declared GRAILS_HOME =C:\Grails
now i have changed it GRAILS_HOME=C:\Grails\grails
then typed command like grails -v
and everything worked fine

07.08.2008 03:32 src
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C:\Grails\grails>grails -v
‘grails’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Grails\grails>cd bin

C:\Grails\grails\bin>grails -v
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/groovy/g
rails/cli/support/GrailsStarter
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.cli.supp
ort.GrailsStarter
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
Could not find the main class: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.cli.support.GrailsStar
ter. Program will exit.
C:\Grails\grails\bin>

so i dont know what is going on

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Setting Up Development Environment For Grails on GNU/Linux on July 10, 2008 at 2:34 pm said:

[...] couple of my previous posts, I have explained how to install Grails and required packages to get a Grails development environment on the Windows platform. Continuing the Grails series, the current post explains how to set up a development environment [...]

hi,

i have tried many times to install grails and groovy but at command prompt , the command grails is not reocgnized here is my path details
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Babar Rehman>groovy -v
Groovy Version: 1.5.6 JVM: 11.0-b12

C:\Documents and Settings\Babar Rehman>grails -v
‘grails’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Documents and Settings\Babar Rehman>set
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\Babar Rehman\Application Data
CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\lib\ext\QTJava.zip
CLIENTNAME=Console
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=COMPAQ
ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
DISPLAY=:0.0
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
GRAILS_HOME=C:\Grails
GROOVY_HOME=C:\Groovy
HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\Babar Rehman
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Babar Rehman
JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10
LOGONSERVER=\\COMPAQ
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
OS=Windows_NT
PATH=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10\bin;C:\Groovy\bin;C:\Grails\bin;
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.groovy;.gy;.groovy;.gy
;.groovy;.gy
PCTYPE=PRESARIO
PGLOCALEDIR=C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\share\locale
PLATFORM=MCD
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 44 Stepping 2, AuthenticAMD
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15
PROCESSOR_REVISION=2c02
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\lib\ext\QTJava.zip
ROOTDIR=C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT
SESSIONNAME=Console
SHELL=C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT\mksnt\sh.exe
SonicCentral=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sonic Shared\Sonic Central\
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\BABARR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\BABARR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMPDIR=C:\DOCUME~1\BABARR~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
tvdumpflags=8
USERDOMAIN=COMPAQ
USERNAME=Babar Rehman
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Babar Rehman
windir=C:\WINDOWS

so could you please figure the problem out….
thanks in advance

You can also try to see if proper version information is printed by running java -v, groovy -v and grails -v commands. If all the paths are set properly, what error do you get when you try to create a grails application?