How do I run spring-boot 1.2.x executable jar - gradle

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This is a continuation of another question that got partially answered. Since the question morphed, I thought I should open a question that is more inline with that.
I have a project that started out as a spring-boot 1.1.7.RELEASE and I started from a directory containing the jar and an application.properties file via:
java -jar edm-0.1.0.jar
Everything was right as rain until I upgraded to spring-boot 1.2.1.RELEASE. Now, when I try to start with java -jar the app appears to start but trying to login gives me an error that the /templates html pages aren't found.
It would appear that the preferred way to start spring-boot apps is:
gradle bootRun
This would appear to work as long as I am in the top level of my project directory. But if I move the jar file off to another directory, and try to run it, I get the error:
:temp$ gradle bootRun
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Task 'bootRun' not found in root project 'temp'.
* Try:
Run gradle tasks to get a list of available tasks. Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
so when I run "gradle tasks" I can see that "bootRun" is not available:
:temp$ gradle tasks
:tasks
------------------------------------------------------------
All tasks runnable from root project
------------------------------------------------------------
Build Setup tasks
-----------------
init - Initializes a new Gradle build. [incubating]
wrapper - Generates Gradle wrapper files. [incubating]
Help tasks
----------
dependencies - Displays all dependencies declared in root project 'temp'.
dependencyInsight - Displays the insight into a specific dependency in root project 'temp'.
help - Displays a help message
projects - Displays the sub-projects of root project 'temp'.
properties - Displays the properties of root project 'temp'.
tasks - Displays the tasks runnable from root project 'temp'.
I guess this is a spring-boot gradle issue, but I can't say for sure. My version:
:temp$ gradle -version
------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 1.10
------------------------------------------------------------
Build time: 2013-12-17 09:28:15 UTC
Build number: none
Revision: 36ced393628875ff15575fa03d16c1349ffe8bb6
Groovy: 1.8.6
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013
Ivy: 2.2.0
JVM: 1.8.0_31 (Oracle Corporation 25.31-b07)
OS: Mac OS X 10.10.2 x86_64
And here is my build.gradle:
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'groovy'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot'
apply plugin: 'jacoco'
apply plugin: 'maven'
idea {
project {
//if you want to set specific jdk and language level
jdkName = '1.8'
languageLevel = '1.8'
}
}
jacoco {
toolVersion = "0.7.0.201403182114"
}
project.ext {
springBootVersion = '1.2.1.RELEASE'
}
configurations {
querydslapt
}
buildscript {
repositories {
maven { url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/' }
maven { url "http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone" }
maven { url "http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot" }
mavenLocal()
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.2.1.RELEASE")
}
}
jar {
baseName = 'edm'
version = '0.1.0'
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven { url "http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone" }
maven { url "https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases" }
maven { url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/' }
maven { url "http://repo.spring.io/snapshot" }
maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/milestone' }
}
dependencies {
querydslapt group: 'com.mysema.querydsl', name: 'querydsl-jpa', version: '2.8.0', classifier: 'apt-one-jar', transitive: false
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:$springBootVersion")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa:$springBootVersion")
compile("org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:4.0.0.M1")
compile("org.springframework.security:spring-security-config:4.0.0.M1")
compile('org.thymeleaf.extras:thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity3:2.1.1.RELEASE')
compile('com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.0.1')
task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
gradleVersion = '2.0'
}
I did read the documentation, but nothing seems to address why I am having this problem. I would really appreciate any help you can send my way.