How to do it...

Change the location of our directory to where the bookpub.zip archive was extracted from and execute the following command from the command line:

      $ ./gradlew clean bootRun
  

The output of the preceding command will be as follows:

    ...
      .   ____          _            __ _ _
     /\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __  __ _    
    ( ( )___ | '_ | '_| | '_ / _` |    
     \/  ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| |  ) ) ) )
      '  |____| .__|_| |_|_| |___, | / / / /
     =========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
     :: Spring Boot ::  (v2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT)
    
    2017-12-16 23:18:53.721 : Starting BookPubApplication on mbp with  
    PID 43850 
    2017-12-16 23:18:53.781 : Refreshing org.springframework.context.
    annotation.Annotatio
    2017-12-16 23:18:55.544 : Building JPA container 
    EntityManagerFactory for persistence 
    2017-12-16 23:18:55.565 : HHH000204: Processing 
    PersistenceUnitInfo [name: default  
    2017-12-16 23:18:55.624 : HHH000412: Hibernate Core  
    {5.2.12.Final}
    2017-12-16 23:18:55.625 : HHH000206: hibernate.properties not 
    found
    2017-12-16 23:18:55.627 : HHH000021: Bytecode provider name : 
    javassist
    2017-12-16 23:18:55.774 : HCANN000001: Hibernate Commons 
    Annotations {5.0.1.Final
    2017-12-16 23:18:55.850 : HHH000400: Using dialect: 
    org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
    2017-12-16 23:18:55.902 : HHH000397: Using 
    ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
    2017-12-16 23:18:56.094 : HHH000227: Running hbm2ddl schema 
    export
    2017-12-16 23:18:56.096 : HHH000230: Schema export complete
    2017-12-16 23:18:56.337 : Registering beans for JMX exposure on 
    startup
    2017-12-16 23:18:56.345 : Started BookPubApplication in 3.024 
    seconds (JVM running...
    2017-12-16 23:18:56.346 : Closing 
    org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationC..
    2017-12-16 23:18:56.347 : Unregistering JMX-exposed beans on 
    shutdown
    2017-12-16 23:18:56.349 : Closing JPA EntityManagerFactory for 
    persistence unit 'def...
    2017-12-16 23:18:56.349 : HHH000227: Running hbm2ddl schema 
    export
    2017-12-16 23:18:56.350 : HHH000230: Schema export complete
    BUILD SUCCESSFUL
    Total time: 52.323 secs