Pass tags via build.gradle instead thro RunCukesSpec - intellij-idea

Question

When I pass tags in the following manner it works perfectly.
package features
import org.junit.runner.RunWith
import cucumber.junit.Cucumber
import geb.junit4.GebReportingTest
#RunWith(Cucumber.class)
#Cucumber.Options(format = ["pretty", "html:build/cucumber", "json-pretty:build/cucumber-report.json"])
,tags = ["#login_neg"])
class RunCukesSpec extends GebReportingTest {}
But my goal is to config same thing via build.gradle & if it succeeds then pass through command line. I tried below as the initial step and hope that by running gradle test in command line to get the expected results.
test {
testLogging.showStandardStreams = true
args = ['--tags', '#login_neg',
'--format', 'html:build/cucumber',
'--format', 'json-pretty:build/cucumber-report.json',
'--format', 'pretty']
}
In this case all the tags are running though.
Tried this as well. But no luck
gradle test -DCucumber.Options="--tags #login_neg"
versions:
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Gradle 1.9
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Build time: 2013-11-19 08:20:02 UTC
Build number: none
Revision: 7970ec3503b4f5767ee1c1c69f8b4186c4763e3d
Groovy: 1.8.6
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013
Ivy: 2.2.0
JVM: 1.7.0_45 (Oracle Corporation 24.45-b08)
OS: Windows 7 6.1 amd64

Answer 1

You can pass options as System properties by updating your build.gradle file with:
test {
systemProperty "cucumber.options", System.properties.getProperty("cucumber.options")
}
This configuration will pass the cucumber.options System property from the Gradle JVM to the JVM running the tests.
You can then run gradle test -Dcucumber.options="--help" to see the available options for that System property (replace --help with your options).