Installing Gradle on OSX

Gradle is a build automation solution which can be downloaded from http://www.gradle.org/downloads and is an really powerful 'Groovy based' way to automate builds.

The download is made available (in Dec 2013) as a zip file, but for OSX there are is not 'installer script', so here is how I just set it up on my dev OSX laptop:

1) downloaded the binaries from http://www.gradle.org/downloads, unziped the zip and copied the gradle-1.9 folder to a local dev folder:



2) created a .profile file in my current dev user root directory

3) edited that file to setup a GRADLE_HOME folder

4) started a new instance of Terminal, confirmed that the $PATH environment variable was updated, and executed the gradle command

References:

• http://www.cerebro.com.au/2013/08/01/java-gradle-install-gradle-in-mac-osx/
• http://ondrej-kvasnovsky.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/how-to-install-gradle-on-mac-os.html