How can I run new gradle task?

Question

I have created a new gradle task in build.gradle:

task callCL(type: Exec) {
   println "hello"
   commandLine './rerun.sh'
}

Which suppose to run rerun.sh:

#!/bin/bash

cucumber -f rerun --out rerun.txt

file="rerun.txt"
if [ -f "$file" ] then
    cucumber @rerun.txt
    rm $file
fi

I'm using IntelliJ as an IDE. How can I run this task?

I have tried to run in the zshell console and got this error:

gradle callCL zsh: command not found: gradle

But in the IDE I use gradle all the time so it must be installed.

How can I fix this? And is my writing ok?

Answer 1

Try this:
1. Make sure GRADLE_HOME, GRADLE_OPTS are set.
2. Make sure $PATH has GRADLE_HOME/bin in it.
3. which gradle should return you a valid output.
4. then, see below
, if this works on command prompt, then your IDE setting just need to know where's is GRADLE_HOME aka its installed / executable (either gradle or gradle.bat)

NOTE: I have used my own dummy rerun.sh file, you can you use build.gradle (as shown below).

$ cat rerun.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo Im re-running a command echo
echo something
echo ...
echo

$ cat build.gradle

task callCL(type: Exec) {
        println "-----"
        println "hello"
        println "-----"
        executable "bash"
        args "-c", "bash ./rerun.sh"

        //The following will do as well as magic number in bash is already set to #!/bin/bash
        //args "-c", "./rerun.sh"
}

$ /cygdrive/c/gradle-2.0/bin/gradle callCL

-----
hello
-----
:callCL
Im re-running a command echo
something
...

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 2.006 secs

Answer 2

This looks like problem with gradle not being found on path (in your shell).

You may use GVM to easily install gradle so that its available on your PATH.