succlz123/RAMDiskGradlePlugin

RAM Disk plugin for Gradle

A Gradle plugin that can help developer to use RAM disk to speed up compilation in an easy way.

Usage

repositories {
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.github.succlz123:ramdisk:0.0.1'
}

Just need to apply plugin in the app module once

apply plugin: 'org.succlz123.ramdisk'

Windows

For Windows platform, there is no convenient way to use system tool to create a RAM disk, so please download the imdisk to work with it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/

Option

gradle.properties

# if your RAM is smaller than 16GB, you need to enable the plugin manually
RAMDisk.enable=true
RAMDisk.name=RAMDiskForGradle
# 1024MB = 1GB
RAMDisk.size=1024
# apfs or hfs+, defalut is apfs
RAMDisk.mac.format=apfs

Other

if you encouter some stranger issues with this plugin, please clean the build cache and delete the .gradle dir which locate in the project root path.

ToDo

Crazy Mode

Move the Gradle .cache dir into RAM disk.

succlz123 / RAMDiskGradlePlugin