Path for unqualified templates (in a render tag) should default to that of the including view, not the calling controller.

It appears that the path for unqualified template names corresponds to the calling controller, not the including view. That is, if a tag like:

<g:render template="footer" />

is included in the view shared/index.gsp which is being rendered by, say, the UserController with a call like:

render(view:'/shared/index')

Then grails looks for _footer.gsp in views/user, not views/shared. It seems strange for the behavior of the render tag and the view to depend on which controller is using it. It makes it harder to create a modular set of views, as they need to include hardcoded paths to their own location; e.g., shared/index.gsp would contain:

<g:render template="/shared/footer" />

This makes it more difficult to move the views (e.g. from "shared" to "admin"), as these hard-coded paths need to be changed.