Running JHipster Gradle task from Intellij IDEA

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This error happens when I run with Gradle through from Intellij IDEA.. but from console everything works fine... someone knows why?

Executing external task 'run --stacktrace'... :compileJava UP-TO-DATE :compileScala UP-TO-DATE :bower FAILED

org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':bower'.

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "bower" (in directory "/Users/eduardo/Development/projects/jhipster"): error=2, No such file or directory

Where is "bower"? Would you please try to open Terminal in IDEA and try "which bower" to see if IDEA can find "bower"? — longhua, Apr 11 '15 at 02:58
from Terminal in IDEA... everything works... which bower /Users/eduardo/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.2/bin/bower — eduardoschmidtsantos, Apr 11 '15 at 03:02

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 29 '17 at 18:48

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I contacted JetBrains support about this. The one thing they suggested was running IntelliJ from the command line, which is working for me:

open -a "/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 15.app"

edited Jul 29 '17 at 18:48

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answered Mar 10 '16 at 15:35

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This also works for STS/Eclipse by running open -a "Applications/STS.app" – Vineet Bhatia Aug 13 '16 at 18:56

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

At a guess, you are running IntelliJ on OSX, maybe with a brew install of bower?

Recent versions of OSX (at least 10.10.1) don't let you easily set the PATH for graphical applications (launchctl seems to have a bug in regards to PATH). Combined with there being no way to modify the current environment PATH for launching subprocesses in Java, this results in being unable to find the bower executable. A Complete rundown of the root problem can be seen here (Setting the environment for ProcessBuilder), but essentially IntelliJ must have your PATH set correctly in order for non standard PATHs to be searched.

My solution for now is a complete hack taken from https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/51737 - essentially, create a wrapper script:

create /Application/IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 14.app/Contents/MacOS/idea.sh with contents of:

#!/bin/sh

. ~/.bash_profile

logger "`dirname \"$0\"`/idea"

exec "`dirname \"$0\"`/idea" $@

then chmod +x /Application/IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 14.app/Contents/MacOS/idea.sh

then edit /Application/IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 14.app/Contents/Info.plist and set CFBundleExecutable to idea.sh

lastly, run /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -v -f /Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 14.app

It's a hack, but it works... and until Apple fixes launchctl, it's the only solution I've come up with.

It works! Thanks! I used `/Applications/...` instead of `/Application...` — TheKojuEffect, Jul 26 '15 at 00:33
Try changing the command to use the path to your IntelliJ installation. — Loki, Jan 23 '16 at 23:18
This is great but much easier to do. The procedure can be reduced 3 steps: 1) move the idea executable to idea_app , 2) create new file called idea and enter your shell script there, point to idea_app from it 3) chmod +x idea - and you are done. Nice — Moonwalker, Oct 12 '16 at 09:04

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