I just posted the Gradle Plugin for Idea. It requires Idea 9 (Community or Ultimate Edition) and Gradle 0.9 (a very current one – basically from March 10th 2010). It also requires the JetGroovy Plugin to be enabled (this comes with Idea).
It should be showing up within Idea's “Available” plugins soon, but I think its in a holding pattern waiting on 'moderation'. You can manually download it from http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?idea&id=4667, then place it in your user plugins directory (see below). There is somewhat more information at http://wiki.github.com/gradle/intellij-plugin/. Its the same UI as when you run gradle --gui, except it shows the output in a separate horizontal pane and file links with its output will open within Idea (except HTML which will open in your current browser). This is also a Project-based plugin meaning it only shows up when projects are open and stores its settings within each Idea project. Once you've installed it, you'll need to set your gradle home in Idea. Do this by going to File/Settings and selecting Gradle in the Project Settings along the left. Here, point it to the root directory of a gradle distribution (remember: a very current 0.9 version only). Unfortunately, now you have to restart Idea, but when it comes back up, you should have the Gradle UI. The source is located at http://github.com/gradle/intellij-plugin Manual installation: where to copy the plugin jar to: - Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\.IdeaIC90\config\plugins - OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/IdeaIC90 - Linux: /home/[user]/.IdeaIC90/config/plugins Note: substitue IdeaIC90 with IntelliJIdea90 if you're using the Ultimate Edition of Idea. Mike Automated Logic Research Team
