Grails Gradle Plugin

This plugin for Gradle allows you to build Grails projects. To use it, simply include the required JARs via buildscript {} and 'apply' the plugin:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        mavenRepo urls: "http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/"
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath "org.grails:grails-gradle-plugin:1.0",
                  "org.grails:grails-bootstrap:1.3.4"
    }
}

apply plugin: "grails"

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    mavenRepo urls: "http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/"
}

dependencies {
    compile "org.grails:grails-crud:1.3.4",
            "org.grails:grails-gorm:1.3.4"
}

You must include a version of the 'grails-bootstrap' artifact in the 'classpath' configuration. You should also add whichever Grails artifacts you need. 'grails-crud' and 'grails-gorm' will give you everything you need for a standard Grails web application.

Warning If you're using a pre-1.3.5 or pre-1.2.4 version of Grails, you'll need to add this runtime dependency to your project's build file:

runtime org.aspectj:aspectjrt:1.6.8

Once you have this build file, you can create a Grails application with the 'init' task:

gradle init

Other standard tasks include:

• clean
• compile
• test
• assemble

You can also access any Grails command by prefixing it with 'grails-'. For example, to run the application:

gradle grails-run-app

If you want to pass in some arguments, you can do so via the args project property:

gradle -Pargs='--inplace solr' grails-create-plugin

You can also change the environment via the env project property:

gradle -Penv=prod grails-run-app

Warning Version 1.0 of the plugin does not allow you to execute multiple tasks in one command line. So gradle clean test will fail even if clean and test individually succeed.

Troubleshooting

• Caused by: org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/cli/Options

  This happens if your project depends on the 'groovy' JAR rather than 'groovy-all'. Change your dependency to the latter and all will be well.