What's the correct way to install a grails plugin from a zip file?

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In recent versions of Grails `install-plugin` command has been deprecated. What is now the recommended way of installing a plugin that is not available via some repository. Assume the plugin is only available locally as zip file, e.g. after running `grails package-plugin`?

Accepted Answer

I think the easiest approach is to place the zip file in the project's lib folder and then add an entry in the BuildConfig.groovy. For example:

```
1. 'grails-image-tools-1.0.5.zip' placed in lib.
2. runtime ":grails-image-tools:1.0.5" added to BuildConfig.groovy
```

Since the dependency manager looks inside the project's lib folder as well, I don't have to worry about setting any paths etc.

EDIT: The latest Grails version that I worked on was 2.1.1. I'm unable to check but according to @Saurabh's comment below this isn't applicable for Grails 2.4.3

EDIT2: But @Jay says that it works with 2.4.5

What's the correct way to install a grails plugin from a zip file?

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