gradle doesn't work in Intellij - problems with JAVA_HOME

Question

• I can run gradle from a command line to see its version.
• I can run, compile and debug a grails app in IntelliJ (version 10.0 or version 10.2)
• I insta

Answer 1

IntelliJ uses its own jre.

to force IntelliJ to use it, you need to set the environment variable IDEA_JDK to point to your JDK.

then simply restart intellij and gradle gui plugin should now work.