When we develop our Ratpack application using Gradle we can use the continuous build feature of Gradle. If we make a change in a source file then our Ratpack application is automatically restarted. It would be nice to combine this with LiveReload using the Gradle LiveReload plugin. Then when we change for example a stylesheet file it is automatically reloaded in the web browser without invoking a refresh action.

In the following build file we add the Gradle LiveReload plugin and configure it to watch for changes in the output directory of the processResources task. This task is executed when we change a file in the source directory if we use Gradle's continuous build feature.

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