Creating a Sublime Text Grunt Build System for a specific target - ide

Question

I'm new to Grunt (and fairly new to sublime Text), but I've downloaded the excellent grunt build system and it works well every time I save. I'm on Win8 by the way.
The only problem is that it runs all tasks/targets. I have separated my tasks into "dist" and "dev" targets and I would like it to run only the dev tasks when I use it on save.
I'd then like to create a separate build task which I would use when building for production. Is this a sensible strategy?
Anyway, I just need to know how to modify the following build system file to just run tasks with the "dev" target....
{
"cmd": ["grunt", "--no-color"],
"file_regex": "^(..[^:]*):([0-9]+):?([0-9]+)?:? (.*)$",
"working_dir": "${project_path:${folder:${file_path}}}",
"selector": "Gruntfile.js",
"windows":
{
"cmd": ["grunt.cmd", "--no-color"]
},
"variants":
[
{
"name": "Gruntfile",
"cmd": ["grunt", "--no-color"],
"windows":
{
"cmd": ["grunt.cmd", "--no-color"]
}
}
]
}

Answer 1

You first need to create an task that runs all the dev targets:
grunt.registerTask('dev', ['task:dev', 'task2:dev']);
This can be run from the command-line using: grunt dev
As for the Sublime build config, "cmd" is just an array of command-line arguments.
So it would end up like this:
{
"cmd": ["grunt", "dev", "--no-color"],
"file_regex": "^(..[^:]*):([0-9]+):?([0-9]+)?:? (.*)$",
"working_dir": "${project_path:${folder:${file_path}}}",
"selector": "Gruntfile.js",
"windows":
{
"cmd": ["grunt.cmd", "dev", "--no-color"]
},
"variants":
[
{
"name": "Gruntfile",
"cmd": ["grunt", "dev", "--no-color"],
"windows":
{
"cmd": ["grunt.cmd", "dev", "--no-color"]
}
}
]
}

Answer 2

All you need to do is call Grunt by specifying it's complete path. Calling grunt alone fails, even though you have the grunt-cli installed and working from the cmd prompt. Note you need to have the environment variable for nodejs set.
Windows users create your my-project.sublime-builder file and put it in C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Packages\User. Apple/Unix location will be different.
The my-project.sublime-builder file looks like:
{
"cmd": "C:\\Users\\ronni\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\grunt.cmd",
"working_dir": "C:\\Users\\ronni\\documents\\my-project"
}