diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/gradle-tooling.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/gradle-tooling.adoc
index cb8947cc31c00..7871b6a2729e7 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/gradle-tooling.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/gradle-tooling.adoc
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ You can change the working directory the development environment runs on:
 [source,groovy]
 ----
 quarkusDev {
-    workingDir = rootProject.projectDir
+    workingDirectory = rootProject.layout.projectDirectory.asFile
 }
 ----
 ****
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ quarkusDev {
 [source,kotlin]
 ----
 tasks.quarkusDev {
-    workingDir = rootProject.projectDir.toString()
+    workingDirectory = rootProject.layout.projectDirectory.asFile
 }
 ----
 ****
diff --git a/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/custom-config-java-module/build.gradle b/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/custom-config-java-module/build.gradle
index 82794ca12811a..a3bc0d4a865be 100644
--- a/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/custom-config-java-module/build.gradle
+++ b/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/custom-config-java-module/build.gradle
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ compileTestJava {
 }
 
 quarkusDev {
-    workingDir = "./build"
+    workingDirectory = layout.buildDirectory.asFile
 }
 
 quarkusBuild {
diff --git a/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/custom-working-dir-app/build.gradle b/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/custom-working-dir-app/build.gradle
index 0eef857a7645b..5f40739890804 100644
--- a/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/custom-working-dir-app/build.gradle
+++ b/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/custom-working-dir-app/build.gradle
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ repositories {
 }
 
 quarkusDev {
-    workingDir = rootProject.projectDir
+    workingDirectory = rootProject.layout.projectDirectory.asFile
 }
 
 dependencies {
diff --git a/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/dotenv-config-java-module/build.gradle b/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/dotenv-config-java-module/build.gradle
index 9da621266cf25..55b148110d3ae 100644
--- a/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/dotenv-config-java-module/build.gradle
+++ b/integration-tests/gradle/src/main/resources/dotenv-config-java-module/build.gradle
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import static java.nio.file.Files.createTempDirectory
+
 plugins {
     id 'java'
     id 'io.quarkus'
@@ -31,9 +33,9 @@ compileTestJava {
 }
 
 quarkusDev {
-    workingDir = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir")
+    workingDirectory = createTempDirectory("").toFile()
 }
 
 test {
     systemProperty "java.util.logging.manager", "org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}