I am lazy. My fingers have habits that are sometimes hard to change.

I've learned to type gradle, like all the time. Now I need to use gradlew, and for some reason this is difficult.

So I wrote a script, that I've now aliased (whichGradle is now obviously on my path):
alias gradle='whichGradle'

which just does this:

if [ -x $PWD/gradlew ]; then
  echo Using $PWD/gradlew
  $PWD/gradlew $@
else
  echo Using `which gradle`
  gradle $@
fi