1. Gradle is a build automation tool is used to automate the creation of applications.
2. Gradle is popular to provide high-speed performance, nearly twice as fast as Maven.
3. A build script is known as build.gradle and is located in the root directory of the project.
4. Gradlew is a gradle wrapper for gradle command.
5. gradlew is a wrapper(w - character) that uses gradle.
6. gradle-wrapper.properties contain the gradle wrapper configuration information

Testing Gradle

./gradlew test

Building (no tests)

./gradlew assemble

Building (with tests)

./gradlew build

Running in Docker

./gradlew assemble docker dockerRun

Stopping Docker container

./gradlew dockerStop

Deploying to AWS

./gradlew awsCfnMigrateStack awsCfnWaitStackComplete -PsubnetId=<your-subnet-id> -Pregion=<your-region>

Deleting AWS deployment

./gradlew awsCfnDeleteStack awsCfnWaitStackComplete

Using API

• get all rides - GET /ride to get a list of all the rides
• get specific ride - GET /ride/${id} to get a specific ride
• create ride - POST JSON to /ride to create a new ride (see article for full details)