The checkstyle plugin brings code quality checks into the gradle build. This way, if team members are using disparate IDEs or have different settings, consistent coding standards are enforced in the build. Here’s how to add checkstyle to your Java build in two steps:1) In build.gradle, add this: apply plugin: ‘checkstyle’ checkstyle … Read moreusing checkstyle in gradle
The problem: multiple Java projects, each with their own Gradle build, dependent on each other but not linked.The goal: connect them into one great build to rule them all.The caveat: without messing with the individual builds. It is 3 days before go-live at this startup. The solution:1) get all of the projects under one subdirectory. … Read moreConnecting Java Projects in Gradle
test { exclude ‘**/Manual*’} this is here because I know I will forget it.
The new version of IntelliJ IDEA is out, and I’m liking it. Gradle integration: creating a new project from a build.gradle was smooth and easy. Then when dependencies were added to the gradle file, the gradle plugin came in handy. One line added to build.gradle apply plugin: ‘idea’ and then one execution of gradle idea … Read moreIntelliJ IDEA 11
Today in Unit Testing, an evil framework class hid my important return value away in a private field. Groovy to the rescue! So far, all our code and tests are in Java. It took only two lines in build.gradle, as specified in the gradle documentation, and poof. I put my little test class in src/test/groovy/package/structure, … Read moreGradle is easy: Groovy tests
In the previous post, we saw that each labeled block in a Gradle build file is really a closure with DELEGATE_FIRST scope. Each of these blocks has access to all the methods on the delegate object. The class of that delegate object varies by block. Even looking at the source code to identify the class … Read moreStupid Gradle Tricks #1: what can I do in this block?
Gradle, the build system, is a DSL on top of Groovy. The build scripts (which are really configuration scripts) are Groovy code. So why do they look so weird? Today I configured a particular obscure property of the eclipse plugin in milestone 6 of Gradle. The answer looks like: apply plugin: ‘eclipse-wtp’eclipse { wtp { … Read moreLifting the blankets of Gradle