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

I think this error might be caused by an install bug with IntelliJ IDEA. When I look at the installed folder referred to in the error message on my filesystem:

C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 10.0\jre

I see the jre folder but then another jre folder beneath that one which contains the bin and lib folders of the jre:

jre
    jre
        bin
        lib

I copied bin and lib up a level into the first jre folder, and that fixed this error for me.