Adding in-place plugin to grails 3 project

Question

In grails 2.x, we were allowed to add an in place plugin by adding following in BuildConfig.groovy

grails.plugin.location.\"my-plugin\" = \"../my-plug

Answer 1

Yes, there is. Grails 3 is based on Gradle so multi-project gradle builds solve your issue.

Basically you add dependency as: compile project(':../my-custom-plugin') and has to modify settings.gradle to include plugin: include '../my-custom-plugin'

Check Grails documentation on Plugins and Multi-Project Builds in http://grails.github.io/grails-doc/latest/guide/plugins.html

Other way is to install plugin in local maven repository using gradle publishToMavenLocal command and resolve if from there, before publishing to Bintray or other dependency repository.

Additionally since Grails 3.1.1, reloading is now supported for 'inline' plugins. Check https://github.com/grails/grails-core/releases/tag/v3.1.1 and http://grails.io/post/138665751278/grails-3-gradle-multi-project-builds

It is done using grails { plugins { syntax. Copied from docs:

grails {
    plugins {
        compile ":hibernate"
        compile project(':myplugin')
    }
}