This project uses JDK 8 - you will need to download it first.

It also includes Idea integration (i.e. you can start coding in Groovy instantly, Gradle will download everything it needs) - though you will need to download this IDE manually.

The template includes pre-configured code styles settings and inspections for Groovy and Java.

Groovy is provided for as compile and test dependency, and Spock as test-only.

In order to get started, just fork this project (or download and push back), open it in Idea and get used to running the build (via Gradle as gradlew clean build or from the Idea run config Clean Build). Once you understand how it's supposed to work, start hacking around, e.g.:

• modify the group in the build.gradle file
• change the required Java version to 7
• change the package in the Dummy.groovy file
• change the return value of Dummy.groovy file and make the test pass again
  ... and rerun the build after each step, to verify that all is still working.

Happy hacking! :)