Did grails install-plugin which gave me version 0.4 This did fgrails codenarc, and got the below Mt grails is 1.2.1 Error executing script Codenarc: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Config gant.TargetExecutionException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Config at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure4.doCall(Gant.groovy:331) at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure6.doCall(Gant.groovy:334) at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure6.doCall(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant.withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy:344) at gant.Gant.this$2$withBuildListeners(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant$this$2$withBuildListeners.callCurrent(Unknown Source) at gant.Gant.dispatch(Gant.groovy:334) at gant.Gant.this$2$dispatch(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant.invokeMethod(Gant.groovy) at gant.Gant.processTargets(Gant.groovy:495) at gant.Gant.processTargets(Gant.groovy:480) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Config at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248) at Codenarc.loadConfig(Codenarc:58) at Codenarc.this$4$loadConfig(Codenarc) at Codenarc$this$4$loadConfig.callCurrent(Unknown Source) at Codenarc.runCodenarc(Codenarc:29) at Codenarc.this$4$runCodenarc(Codenarc) at Codenarc$_run_closure1.doCall(Codenarc:23) at gant.Gant$_dispatch_closure4.doCall(Gant.groovy:324) ... 10 more Error executing script Codenarc: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Config