How to set environment vars in IntelliJ for Gradle tasks

Question

the easiest way to pass spring profiles to gradle bootRun is (for me) by environment variable (e.g. SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE), when run on commandline.

Answer 1

I've had success adding the following to my build.gradle file:

tasks.withType(org.springframework.boot.gradle.run.BootRunTask) {
    systemProperty('spring.profiles.active', 'local')
}

This allows gradlew bootRun to be run from IntelliJ without requiring any changes to the IntelliJ Run/Debug Configurations (and also from the command line without having to manually specify a profile).