How to tell Grails to use Gradle for dependencies resolution - grails

Question

I'm trying to setup a grails project with gradle but i came a problem, i can't make grails to use gradle for dependencies resolution. If i config the dependencies in gradle build file and run gradle grails-run-app, it always report can't find classes in dependencies jars.
When i cut and paste the dependencies into grails BuildConfig.groovy and everything is ok.
How to tell Grails to use Gradle for dependencies resolution?
I paste my build.gradle file here, Any suggestion?
apply plugin: 'grails'
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'jetty'
version "1.0-SNAPSHOT"
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
mavenRepo urls: 'http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/'
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.connorgarvey.gradle:gradle-grails-wrapper:1.0'
}
}
grails {
version '2.2.3'
}
repositories {
mavenLocal()
mavenCentral()
mavenRepo urls: 'http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/'
}
dependencies {
compile 'org.modeshape.bom:modeshape-bom-embedded:3.3.0.Final'
compile 'postgresql:postgresql:9.1-901.jdbc4'
compile 'javax.jcr:jcr:2.0'
compile 'org.modeshape:modeshape-jcr:3.3.0.Final'
}

Answer 1

I would recommend using the grails-gradle-plugin instead.
UPDATED ANSWER, cleanup and usage of bootstrap scope to exclude Tomcat jars from war.
General info
I followed a presentation from Luke Daley (aka alkemist) on Youtube at gr8conf 2013. I was able to create a small POC and Gradle seems to work fine with Grails 2.2.3.
Gradle build file
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven { url 'http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/' }
maven { url 'http://repo.grails.org/grails/repo' }
maven { url 'http://repo.grails.org/grails/plugins' }
maven { url 'http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release' }
maven { url 'http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external' }
maven { url 'http://repository.springsource.com/maven/libraries/release' }
maven { url 'http://repository.springsource.com/maven/libraries/external' }
}
dependencies {
classpath 'org.grails:grails-gradle-plugin:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT',
'org.grails:grails-bootstrap:2.2.3'
}
}
version='0.0.1'
apply plugin: 'grails'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven { url 'http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/' }
maven { url 'http://repo.grails.org/grails/repo' }
maven { url 'http://repo.grails.org/grails/plugins' }
maven { url 'http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release' }
maven { url 'http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external' }
maven { url 'http://repository.springsource.com/maven/libraries/release' }
maven { url 'http://repository.springsource.com/maven/libraries/external' }
}
grails {
grailsVersion '2.2.3'
version '2.2.3'
}
configurations {
all {
exclude module: 'commons-logging'
exclude module: 'xml-apis'
}
test {
exclude module: 'groovy-all'
}
compile {
exclude module: 'hibernate'
}
}
dependencies {
compile( "org.grails:grails-crud:$grails.grailsVersion",
'org.grails:grails-gorm:1.3.7')
bootstrap "org.grails:grails-plugin-tomcat:$grails.grailsVersion"
}

Answer 2

Send a text.... ;) Kidding.
You must include a version of the 'grails-bootstrap' artifact in the
'classpath' configuration. You should also add whichever Grails
artifacts you need. 'grails-crud' and 'grails-gorm' will give you
everything you need for a standard Grails web application.
Have a look at the plugin docs.