Work In Progress [And only working on Mac so far]

The state of this plugin is so much in ple-alpha that it has the potential to open a gap in the space-time continuum, or at the very least it could mess up your computer or project. Use at your own risk. Also, Windows and Linux support will come in the future.

ramBuild

A small plugin to make builds in gradle run on ram instead of the hard drive

Install

If you are using Gradle 2.1 or higher you can use the new syntax:

plugins {
  id "com.pablisco.gradle.rambuild" version "0.1"
}

Otherwise you can add ramBuild to your build on the traditional way:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    maven {
      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
    }
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "gradle.plugin.com.pablisco.gradle:plugin:+" // <- change for latest version
  }
}

apply plugin: "com.pablisco.gradle.rambuild"

And that's it, now you are running your build from ram. It's recommended to do this on the root project to avoid conflicts.

Customise

It's possible to change how the plugin works, like this on you gradle script:

ramBuild {
    size = "1g" // This is used to determine the size of the drive (standard {k|m|g} pattern for KB, MB and GB)
    name = "unicorn" // This is the name used when the drive is mounted
}

Why do I need this?

Given you have a generous amount of ram (higher than 4GB) this can help gradle run about 30% faster (comparing SATA SSD to ddr3). But more importantly, this allows your ssd drive to receive less pounding from the compiler. Given that a typical project has thousands of files on top of dependencies, we are looking at a large pile of tiny files that get copied and moved around like there is no tomorrow.