local.properties is not read by build script

[rlovtangen]

When building documentation, grails-core source is downloaded, but this can be avoided:

Additionally you can create a local.properties file with this variable set:
grails.home=/home/user/projects/grails-core

(https://grails.github.io/grails-doc/3.0.3/guide/contributing.html#patchesDoc)

I can't get this to work. Tried with both absolute and relative path. Can't find any references to local.properties in build.gradle, the only references I find is in .gitignore and 4 .gdoc-files.

Pointing to grails core on the command line works. E.g.

./gradlew -Dgrails.home=/home/user/projects/grails-core docs

[anshbansal]

I think this should be gradle.properties. What do you think?

[rlovtangen]

Tried to put grails.home in gradle.properties, but still fetching grails source.

[anshbansal]

I made a PR that fixes this. The build was not reading the project properties.