ActiveJDBC (JavaLite) : Using "activejdbc.properties" does not work for test directory - activejdbc

Question

I recently updated to ActiveJDBC 2.1 in order to use activejdbc.properties for the purpose of externalizing out the database property so we didn't have to check in the database username/password into SVN.
Putting the "activejdbc.property" file in src/main/resources for the main code works perfect. Now the goal is to replace the "database.property" file in the test directory src/test/resources with an "activejdbc.property" so it can point to the same database config file out on the file system.
After making this change in the test directory, we receive an error when performing the gradle build (gradle clean build). This is the exception we see:
`"org.javalite.activejdbc.InitException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \database.properties (The system cannot find the file specified)"
Any ideas why this works for main directory but not for the tests?
Stacktrace:
es/main/com/brookdale/model/UnitOfMeasure.class
**************************** END INSTRUMENTATION ****************************
...
:assemble
:compileTestJava
:processTestResources
:testClasses
:test
com.brookdale.model.ActualChargeTest > unitQuantityMustBeGreaterThanZero FAILED
org.javalite.activejdbc.InitException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \database.properties (The system cannot find the file specified)
Caused by:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: \database.properties (The system cannot find the file specified)
... more tests ...
com.brookdale.service.RelationshipServiceTest > updateContactRel_GivenValidInfo_
RecordIsInserted FAILED
org.javalite.activejdbc.InitException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \datab
ase.properties (The system cannot find the file specified)
Caused by:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: \database.properties (The system cannot f
ind the file specified)
49 tests completed, 25 failed, 7 skipped
:test FAILED
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':test'.
BUILD FAILED`

Answer 1

It seems you did not name the file correctly: the name of the file is not activejdbc.property, it is activejdbc.properties.
Additionally, Java class loaders do not guarantee which file they will load first if it finds multiples on the classpath. If you want different JDBC properties in your test environment, please follow docs here: http://javalite.io/database_connection_management#multiple-environments-property-file-method
Here is a sample project with this implementation: https://github.com/javalite/simple-example/