Spock Framework Example Project

The purpose of this project is to help you get started with Spock. The project includes several example specifications and build scripts for Gradle. It also makes it easy to create an Eclipse or IDEA project, allowing you to run the example specs from within your IDE.

The Gradle build will automatically download all required dependencies, compile the project, and finally run the example specs. It also bootstraps itself, alleviating the need to have a build tool preinstalled.

Prerequisites

• JDK 5 or higher

Building with Gradle

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./gradlew clean test

Downloaded files (including the Gradle distribution itself) will be stored in the Gradle user home directory (typically user_home/.gradle).

Creating an Eclipse project

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./gradlew cleanEclipse eclipse

Make sure you have a recent version of the Groovy Eclipse plugin installed. After importing the generated project into a workspace, go to Preferences->Java->Build Path->Classpath Variables and add a variable named GRADLE_CACHE with value user_home/.gradle/cache. (If you have an environment variable GRADLE_USER_HOME set, the correct value is GRADLE_USER_HOME/cache.) You should now be able to build the project, and to run the specs like you would run a JUnit test. See http://wiki.spockframework.org/GettingStarted#Eclipse for more information on how to get started with Spock and Eclipse.

Creating an IDEA project

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./gradlew cleanIdea idea

Open the generated project in IDEA. You should now be able to build the project, and to run the specs like you would run a JUnit test.

Getting hold of the Jars used in this project

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./gradlew collectJars

The Jars will be copied to build/output/lib. The comments in build.gradle explain what they are needed for.

Further Resources

• Spock homepage
• Spock web console
• Main documentation
• User discussion group
• Dev discussion group
• Issue tracker
• Build server
• Maven repository - releases are also available from Maven Central
• Spock blog
• Spock on Twitter
• Ant homepage
• Gradle homepage
• Groovy homepage
• Maven homepage

If you have any comments or questions, please direct them to the Spock discussion group. All feedback is appreciated!

Happy spec'ing! Peter Niederwieser Creator, Spock Framework