Add ratpack-base gradle plugin

[erdi]

To allow using dependency definition helper (ratpack.dependency()) in a consistent way from projects that are not ratpack applications themselves.

[johnrengelman]

Doing this would require the ratpack/ratpack-version.txt file to present as the RatpackDependencies class loads it to get the version to apply.
Is there a desire to provide an alternative method to this for non-Ratpack applications? Perhaps a project property or something?

[erdi]

Yes, that file is on the classpath of the plugin so as a plugin user you wouldn't need to do anything.

You can always use maven coordinates of these dependencies if you're not using the plugin. This issue is about having a way of using the nice "specify version in one place" convenience mechanism if you don't want to apply ratpack-java plugin to your project.

[johnrengelman]

Oh right, yeah, looked at that wrong. Thanks. — John

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Marcin Erdmann notifications@github.com
wrote:

Yes, that file is on the classpath of the plugin so as a plugin user you wouldn't need to do anything.

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[johnrengelman]

Created PR - #462