Gradle build without tests

Question

I want to execute gradle build without executing the unit tests. I tried:

$ gradle -Dskip.tests build

That doesn\'t seem to

Answer 1

Reference

To exclude any task from gradle use -x command-line option. See the below example

task compile << {
    println 'task compile'
}

task compileTest(dependsOn: compile) << {
    println 'compile test'
}

task runningTest(dependsOn: compileTest) << {
    println 'running test'
}
task dist(dependsOn:[runningTest, compileTest, compile]) << {
    println 'running distribution job'
}

Output of: gradle -q dist -x runningTest

task compile
compile test
running distribution job

Hope this would give you the basic