Allow the setting of a working directory for Grunt tasks

[antillean]

There doesn't seem to be a way of setting Grunt's working directory. Grunt install always seems to install grunt to node_modules/grunt and node_modules/grunt-cli in my project directory, and it also always looks for Gruntfile.js in my project directory. I made a custom install task as follows to get more generic behaviour:

task gruntInstallCustom(type: NpmTask, dependsOn: npmInstallCustom) {
    execOverrides {
        it.workingDir = nodeBuildDir
    }

    setArgs( ['install', 'grunt-cli', 'grunt'] )

    outputs.dir { file("$nodeBuildDir/node_modules/grunt") }
    outputs.dir { file("$nodeBuildDir/node_modules/grunt-cli") }
}

It might be worth making a similar/corresponding change in the default grunt tasks.

(This corresponds to issue 48 of gradle-node-plugin. npmInstallCustom is defined on that ticket.)

[btiernay]

Was this fixed? I'm still having the same issue. For my grunt tasks, I would like to be able to use the same npm modules directory configured using node. Thanks!

[btiernay]

I think this is still an issue due to:

https://github.com/srs/gradle-grunt-plugin/blob/master/src/main/groovy/com/moowork/gradle/grunt/GruntTask.groovy#L19

Essentially, this binds grunt binaries relative to the project directory. This should be done relative to the working directory. Otherwise, it is required that "${project.projectDir}/node_modules/" exist, which limits customization / flexibility.

[btiernay]

@antillean I wasn't able to successfully use your custom task suggestion above due to the binding of GruntTask to the project directory. Although grunt will get installed to your specified folder, it still seems that the grunt tasks fail if you remove "${project.projectDir}/node_modules/"

[antillean]

@btiernay, you're right. I forgot to include another task redefinition that I'm using to get it to work:

task gruntBuild(type: NodeTask, dependsOn: gruntInstallCustom) {
    execOverrides {
        it.workingDir = nodeBuildDir
    }

    setScript(file("$nodeBuildDir/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin/grunt"))
}

And the setScript overrides the problematic line that you pointed out.