gradle-examples

Collection of common gradle patterns and example projects.

Common tips

• If you run gradle often, make sure you use gradle --daemon. This will run a gradle daemon in the background and not spin up a new java/groovy vm for each gradle command. If you always want to use it, you can also create an alias: alias gradle='gradle --daemon'
• For committing, I use the following alias: alias gcommit='git pull --rebase && gradle build && git push'
• If you want to force refresh of dependencies, use gradle refresh-dependencies

Example overview

1. How to generate a new project quickly
2. Simple common setup, see build.gradle
3. Adding behaviour to certain stages, for example extended output when running tests
4. Playing around with strict dependency management
5. Building a small library uploadable to some repository
6. Multi project setup using parent build.gradle and settings.gradle
7. Including shared fragments using apply-from (if you don't want your projects within one giant git repository). Note that dependencies other than those defined via a central repository do not work this way. Useful links are
   • here,
   • here and
   • here.

My setup

Just for completeness, this is what I'm using for these examples:

• MacBook Pro/OSX Mavericks
• Git as VCS
• Java 1.7 for example code
• Gradle 1.9 (all examples should work with any version >= 1.8)
• IntelliJ Idea 13 Ultimate (all examples should work with any version >= 11)