Setting different JAVA_HOME for Gradle in IntelliJ IDEA

There are a lot of different options to set JDK folder in Gradle, but in IntelliJ the only option that worked for me was adding this line:

gradle.java.home=C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0/

into idea.properties file.

Storing sessions in Redis with Spring Boot

Tomcat has nice support to use Redis for session replication with this awesome library. However Spring Boot launches embedded Tomcat, so there is no traditional XML configuration, it is still super easy to change default manager to use Redis for session replication, just define containerCustomizer bean, like:

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@ComponentScan
public class App {
  public App() {
  }

  @Bean
  public EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer containerCustomizer(){
    return factory -> {
      TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory containerFactory = (TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory) factory;
      containerFactory.addContextValves(new RedisSessionHandlerValve());
      containerFactory.setTomcatContextCustomizers(Arrays.asList(context -> {
        context.setSessionTimeout(30);
        context.setManager(new RedisSessionManager(){{
          setHost("redis.server.com");
        }});
      }));
    };
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);
  }
}

(this is syntax with new shiny Java 8 lambdas, but with few additional boring types it should compile in old Javas too).

Grails dies in the middle of Jenkins jobs after update

If you have upgraded recently and facing problem when job suddenly dies in the middle of test execution, like:

19:20:39  | Running 277 unit tests... 156 of 277
19:20:53  Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
19:20:54  Description set: 

Most probably it is because since version 2.2 test-app, run-app, run-war runs in fork mode and Jenkins has some fancy zombie process detection that kills spawned processes it does not like.
Quick solution is to disable fork in test environment or you can refer my previous post about hiding such processes.

No such property error in Cucumber specs with Geb

It is common to write Geb specs directly referencing page elements like:

  to LoginPage
  loginField << login
  passwordField << password
  loginButton.click()

But if you try doing same with Cucumber step files, you will get exception, like:

No such property: loginField for class: steps.Login_steps
groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: loginField for class: steps.Login_steps
 at steps.Login_steps$_run_closure2.doCall(Login_steps.groovy:42)
 at ✽.When user enters login and password(Login.feature:7)

This is because page object is not bound and you should reference it explicitly, like:

  to LoginPage
  page.loginField << login
  page.passwordField << password
  page.loginButton.click()