Grails 2.3 (2.3.7) - How to globally add a maven repository and its credentials inside the ~/.grails/settings.groovy?

[Ángel Ruiz]

I think this is relevant in the Grails dev forum too, because IMO the issue
is a bit critical.

This is the final configuration I came up with to address this issue and be
backwards compatible at the same time. Unfortunately it looks like it
breaks the SNAPSHOT dependency management and it will always take the
latest you have in your local repository instead of checking first your
remote repository .

I have opened the following JIRA issue regarding this matter:
http://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-11251

grails.project.ivy.authentication = {
repositories {
mavenLocal()
mavenRepo("whatever URL") {
if (owner.grailsVersion ==~ /2\.3\..*/) {
auth([
username: 'whatever',
password: 'whatever'
])
}
}
grailsCentral()
}

credentials {
realm = "Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager"

host = "whatever"
username = "whatever"
password = "whatever"
}
}

Cheers,
Angel.