(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. 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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