README.md

Gradle Kata: Gradle Wrapper

While you can use Gradle directly to run your build, the setup process is toilsome and having all your developers use the same version is a pain. The Gradle Wrapper script deals with these problems for you, and is the recommended way to use Gradle.

Setup

Run . setup.sh

Then enter the exercises directory.

The task

The exercises directory is the root of your new project, where you want to use Gradle to build it.

1. Run gradle wrapper
2. Examine the generated files. The following files and folders have been created:
   • .gradle/
   • gradle/
   • gradlew
   • gradlew.bat
3. Run ./gradlew --version and verify that the version is the same as when running gradle --version
4. Run ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 5.6.4 to update the version used by the gradle wrapper
5. Run ./gradlew --version again
6. Run gradle --version again

Useful commands

• gradle wrapper
• gradle wrapper --gradle-version x.y.z
• gradle --version and gradlew --version