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

The native way to do this as of Grails 2.0 outside of controllers (so for services, async jobs, etc) is to use the LinkGenerator class. Works everywhere and mentioned in the official docs. See example here

http://mrhaki.blogspot.ca/2012/01/grails-goodness-generate-links-outside.html