diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2826b30..d4afe19 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@ target/
 .iws
 # Mac crap
 .DS_Store
+build/
+.gradle/
+out/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 194ef31..4ae9571 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,3 +5,26 @@ This is a Java implementation of [Quadtree](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadtre
 [![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/varunpant/Quadtree.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/varunpant/Quadtree)
 
 ![Illustration](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Point_quadtree.svg "This image is for Illustration only")
+
+
+## Adding as a gradle dep
+
+in lieu of setting up a build and publishing to a maven repo, the project has been converted to gradle to use a plugin that clones, builds and creates dependencies on gradle projects in git
+
+in gradle.build
+```groovy
+git {
+    implementation 'https://github.com/Argonaught/Quadtree.git', {
+        tag '1.1'
+    }
+}
+```
+
+
+in gradle.settings
+```groovy
+plugins {
+    id 'com.alexvasilkov.git-dependencies' version '2.0.1'
+}
+```
+
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f62ff08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+plugins {
+    id 'java'
+}
+
+group 'Quadtree'
+version '1.1'
+
+repositories {
+    mavenCentral()
+}
+
+
+dependencies {
+    testRuntimeOnly group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.7'
+    testImplementation group: 'junit', name: 'junit-dep', version: '4.7'
+
+}
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad7cee3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rootProject.name = 'QuadTree'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/github/varunpant/quadtree/SpatialTest.java b/src/test/java/com/github/varunpant/quadtree/SpatialTest.java
index b0a74f7..73383c2 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/github/varunpant/quadtree/SpatialTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/github/varunpant/quadtree/SpatialTest.java
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ private static String[] readAllTextFileLines(String fileName) {
     @Test
     public void testTree(){
         _pointList = new ArrayList<Point<Double>>();
-        URL classpathResource = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource("");
-        String resourcePath = classpathResource.getPath()+"points.txt";
+        URL classpathResource = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResource("points.txt");
+        String resourcePath = classpathResource.getPath();
+
         LoadPointsFromFile(resourcePath);
         assertEquals("Expecting 844 points",844,_pointList.size());