Rendering Views from Plugin

Question

I'm trying to modularize my grails app a bit so I'm creating some plugins for some common resources.

If I have layouts, or other views, in my plugin, how would I reference and use them from my main app views? Would I use an attribute in meta to point to the plugin layout? Or the g:applyLayout tag?

ALSO how do I reference CSS, JS and Images which are in my plugin? Using:

<script src="${resource(dir: 'js', file: 'cookie.js')}" type="text/javascript"></script>

my main app does not find them?

Answer 1

To bring in CSS/JS/Images from your plugin Use:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="${resource(dir: 'css', file: 'nameof.css', plugin: 'nameofplugin')}"   type="text/css">

and see also:

http://grails.org/doc/2.2.1/ref/Tags/resource.html