gradle: copy war to tomcat directory

Question

I'm trying to write a Gradle task which copies generated war files to my local tomcat instance:

This isn't working and I'm not sure how to debug it:

 task deploylocal() << {
    println "Copy from ${buildDir}\libs into ${tomcatHome}/webapps"
    copy{
      from "${buildDir}\libs"
      into "${tomcatHome}/webapps"
      include '*.war'
    }
  }

Any ideas on what to do next?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4209847/gradle-copy-war-to-tomcat-directory

Answer 1

Alternatively, you might be able to leverage the gradle-tomcat-plugin