Make IntelliJ prominently display Groovy/Grails syntax errors

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I'm using IntelliJ IDEA 13 to edit my Grails application and while it is very smart about some things, it doesn't display syntax errors very well.

E.g., I can misspell a property or method name, but IntelliJ shows a mellow barely noticeable black underline in code with the on-hover popup saying Cannot resolve symbol 'foobar'.

If I go into View -> Tool Windows -> Messages then it doesn't even show this issue, even after Build -> Rebuild project (although it shows some useless deprecation messages in 3rd party plugin code).

How do I find a view showing all these potential issues so I can review them?

Edit - @lukelazarovic is totally right, I fixed a significant misconception about how Groovy/Grails works. Also question was partially covered by:

Will groovy (grails) give you compile time checking like java?

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