README.md

Cheaper Tickets

Author: David Michael Nelson (davidmichael.nelson -at- gmail -dot- com)

Project meant to find the cheapest plane tickets in Brazil, looking for specific week days within a given period.

Technology stack:

Language

• Groovy - http://groovy.codehaus.org

Build tool

• Gradle - http://www.gradle.org/

Dependencies

• HTTPBuilder - http://groovy.codehaus.org/modules/http-builder/
• Spock - http://code.google.com/p/spock/ (Testing)
• Commons Logging - http://commons.apache.org/logging/ (Logging)
• Log4J - http://logging.apache.org/log4j/ (Logging - Optional)

Setting up

1. Download and set up Groovy and Gradle
2. Checkout the code
3. Test if it is building by running gradle build on project root
4. Have fun!

Running

Run gradle run from the command line

Developing with Intellij IDEA

1. Run gradle idea on project root
2. Open the project on IDEA

Known issues after setting up on IDEA

• Project being created with wrong JDK version

Just change for the one on your machine :).

• Project being created without referencing Groovy standard library causing ClassNotFoundException whem running scripts within IDEA

Right-click your project, click on Add framework support, then select Groovy.