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title: Quickcast #12: Building Grails® Applications with Gradle
date: January 30, 2019
description: Sergio del Amo explores Grails® integration with the Gradle build tool.
author: Sergio del Amo Caballero
image: quickcast.jpg
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h3YfHbGkvA
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In this Grails<sup>&reg;</sup> Quickcast, 2GM (Groovy, Grails framework, and Micronaut) team member, [Sergio del Amo](https://objectcomputing.com/products/2gm-team#caballero), explores Grails integration with the Gradle build tool.
In this 25-minute tutorial, Sergio:
- Explains the Gradle wrapper-related files
- Explains how it's possible to delegate IDE build/run actions from IntelliJ IDEA to Gradle
- Introduces common Gradle tasks for Grails developers, such as bootRun, test, integrationTest, and check or assemble
- Demonstrates how to work with system properties and get a more verbose output from your Gradle test executions
Grails Quickcasts, brought to you through a partnership between [Object Computing, Inc.](https://objectcomputing.com/) (OCI) and [DZone](https://dzone.com/), provide bite-sized tutorials to help you maximize your productivity with the Framework.