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Reputation: 1611

Why is the Grails-Gradle plugin necessary?

I am building my first Grails app and would like the build to be managed by Gradle. I see that there is a Grails-Gradle plugin and many online searches indicate that it is not possible to build a Grails app using Gradle without this plugin.

My question is: why? Why (specifically) is this plugin necessary in order for Gradle to be able to build a Grails app? What functionality does this plugin provide that is otherwise missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 87

Answers (1)

Joshua Moore
Joshua Moore

Reputation: 24776

I don't know why you think it's impossible to build a Grails app without the plugin. It's possible to issue commands to the grails shell from Gradle without the plugin, but it's not very clean.

That's what this plugin does. It cleans up that process, and makes it much Groovier with a DSL. It also makes your Gradle script more portable to other projects and persons.

If you browse the source code you will see all the inner workings of the plugin and realize what it's setting up in your Gradle script. What it offers is a lot of access to Grails in a very standard and portable manner.

Upvotes: 2

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