How to automate Grails build?

What tools shall be used to au开发者_如何学编程tomate Grails build? Ant? Shell? Would be good to read some official documentation about it.

Out-of-the-box Grails provides a build system that can be used to compile, run tests, create a .war, deploy to tomcat, etc.

This build system is implemented using GAnt, which is a Groovy DSL over Ant. You can extend/customise the build system by writing your own GAnt scripts. The scripts provided by Grails provide well defined hooks that you can use to customise the build lifecycle.

What exactly is it that you're trying to do?

The tool we use to automate builds at work is Hudson.

http://hudson-ci.org/

We use it for all our software, including a Grails project. I don't know the specifics, since I'm not in charge of the build system.

Im using Gradle as a build and dependency management tool. Here you can find a plugin for building Grails projects. At the end, I use Jenkins as continuous integration server.