How to setup a Gradle plugin project in IntelliJ?

Question

I want to create a standalone Gradle plugin project as described in the Gradle documentation. I would like to use IntelliJ with code completion for Groovy and Gradle. Since ther

Answer 1

Go to a new, empty folder and type:

gradle init --type groovy-library

Then edit the generated build.gradle file and add:

compile gradleApi()

To the dependencies, and:

apply plugin: 'idea'

To the plugins near the top.

Then run:

./gradlew idea

And open the generated project in IntelliJ