Can I use grails tag outside of GSP?

Question

For example, i can put

inside a .gsp file and it will work nicely.

Bu

Answer 1

You can use taglib methods from Grails controllers, for example:

def userShow = g.createLink(controller:"user", action:"show")

For builtin taglibs (or those in the g namespace) you can omit the namespace prefix in the method call.