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 {
    jcenter()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "org.grails:grails-gradle-plugin:2.1.2"
  }
}

version "0.1"
group "example"

apply plugin: "grails"

repositories {
  grails.central() //creates a maven repo for the Grails Central repository (Core libraries and plugins)
}

grails {
  grailsVersion = '2.4.3'
  groovyVersion = '2.3.7'
  springLoadedVersion '1.2.0.RELEASE'
}

dependencies {
  bootstrap "org.grails.plugins:tomcat:7.0.50" // No container is deployed by default, so add this
  compile 'org.grails.plugins:asset-pipeline:2.1.3' // Just an example of adding a Grails plugin
}

You must specify the grails.grailsVersion property before executing any Grails commands.

The 'grails.groovyVersion' property is a convenience for Grails 2.3.0, it may not work correctly in earlier versions, so it's best to not use it with version pre-2.3.0. Declaring grails.groovyVersion will configure a Gradle ResolutionStrategy to modify all requests for groovy-all to be for the version specified. Additionally, the ResolutionStrategy will change all requests for groovy to be groovy-all

The grails-gradle-plugin will populate the bootstrap, compile, and test classpaths with a base set of dependencies for Grails. You need to provide a container plugin such as 'tomcat' to the bootstrap classpath to enable the run-app command.

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

Initialize a new Grails plugin project by running:

gradle init-plugin

The plugin creates standard tasks that mimic the Java lifecycle:

clean
test
check
build
assemble

These tasks are wrapper tasks that declare a dependsOn to Grails specific tasks. This will allow for further build customization.

clean [grails-clean]
test [grails-test]
assemble [grails-war or grails-package-plugin]

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 grailsArgs project property:

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

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

gradle -PgrailsEnv=prod grails-run-app

You can execute multiple Grails commands in a single step, but bear in mind that if you are passing grailsEnv or grailsArgs then each of the commands will execute with the same values.

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.
Classloading issues, casting proxy instances to their corresponding interface

This can be a sign of a corrupted Spring-Loaded cache directory. The plugin has spring-loaded cache in $HOME/.grails/.slcache - try cleaning that directory

grails/grails-gradle-plugin-archived

Grails Gradle Plugin

Troubleshooting