Resource File Loading in Grails

Loading a resource file using Grails isn't that obvious when you first attempt to do it. I finally figured out how to do that using the follwing code:

 public String buildTemplate(def someBinding){
 def template = ApplicationHolder.application.
 parentContext.getResource("classpath:template.tmpl")
 def engine = new SimpleTemplateEngine()
 def template = engine.createTemplate(template.getFile()).make(someBinding)
 return template.toString()
 }

Obviously an import is needed to run the above code successfully

 import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.ApplicationHolder