Grails No profile found for name [web] illegalstateexception

GrailsMost likely you’ve landed on this page because you’ve searched for the error in a search engine and it brought you here.

Symptom: When you run “grails” under an existing project that you previously had (either on a different PC or from a source-control like GIT or SVN and you’ve mistakenly included the “build” directory).

The associated error would have been one of the following:


Grails No profile found for name [web]

or

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No profile found for name [web].
at org.grails.cli.GrailsCli.initializeProfile(GrailsCli.groovy:507)
at org.grails.cli.GrailsCli.initializeApplication(GrailsCli.groovy:308)
at org.grails.cli.GrailsCli.execute(GrailsCli.groovy:271)
at org.grails.cli.GrailsCli.main(GrailsCli.groovy:162)
| Error Error occurred running Grails CLI: No profile found for name [web]

Either way, here’s how you can quickly resolve this issue and get back in business.

Solution:

Step-1: Remove “.grails” under your “home” directory.


rm -rf ~/.grails/

Step-2: Create a temporary new project


cd /temp/

grails create-app bookstore

This will create a new scafolding and download the dependencies

Step-3: Remove the “build” directory under your original Grails project where you had the problem to begin with.


cd ~/my_original_grails_project/;
rm -rf ./build/
# Remove the old "build" directory

Step-4: Run Grails once again under your original Grails project


cd ~/my_original_grails_project/;
grails

You should see a whole bunch of dependencies being downloaded for this project like the following and you will end up with the Grails prompt:


Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/com/google/guava/guava/18.0/guava-18.0.pom
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/com/google/guava/guava-parent/18.0/guava-parent-18.0.pom
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/net/java/dev/jna/jna/4.1.0/jna-4.1.0.pom
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-util/9.2.18.v20160721/jetty-util-9.2.18.v20160721.pom
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-io/9.2.18.v20160721/jetty-io-9.2.18.v20160721.pom
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/websocket-common/9.2.18.v20160721/websocket-common-9.2.18.v20160721.pom
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/websocket-api/9.2.18.v20160721/websocket-api-9.2.18.v20160721.pom
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/grails/grails-plugin-testing/3.1.10/grails-plugin-testing-3.1.10.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/grails/grails-test/3.1.10/grails-test-3.1.10.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-starter-test/1.3.7.RELEASE/spring-boot-starter-test-1.3.7.RELEASE.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-support/2.47.1/selenium-support-2.47.1.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-remote-driver/2.47.1/selenium-remote-driver-2.47.1.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/websocket-client/9.2.18.v20160721/websocket-client-9.2.18.v20160721.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-api/2.47.1/selenium-api-2.47.1.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/com/google/guava/guava/18.0/guava-18.0.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/net/java/dev/jna/jna/4.1.0/jna-4.1.0.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-util/9.2.18.v20160721/jetty-util-9.2.18.v20160721.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/eclipse/jetty/jetty-io/9.2.18.v20160721/jetty-io-9.2.18.v20160721.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/websocket-common/9.2.18.v20160721/websocket-common-9.2.18.v20160721.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/websocket-api/9.2.18.v20160721/websocket-api-9.2.18.v20160721.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/grails/profiles/web/3.1.9/web-3.1.9.pom
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/grails/profiles/base/3.1.9/base-3.1.9.pom
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/grails/profiles/web/3.1.9/web-3.1.9.jar
Download https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/org/grails/profiles/base/3.1.9/base-3.1.9.jar
| Enter a command name to run. Use TAB for completion:
grails>

Now you’re all set and ready to go.

Cheers!

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