There is some documentation on how to add Jrebel to a Spring Boot app that uses Gradle as the build tool. It is basic but works fine. All you have to do is to add a few lines to build.gradle: if (project.hasProperty('rebelAgent')) { bootRun.jvmArgs += rebelAgent } Then set the property in gradle.properties: rebelAgent=-agentpath:[path/to/JRebel library] ...