Grails decoding default html encoding

I was trying to embed a URL with ampersands '&' in my HTML page using the following expression:

GSP file

${url}

and since my default codec in Config.groovy was set to 'html':

Config.groovy

grails.views.default.codec = "html"

The ampersand was always being converted to

&

What I wanted was just the '&' character in unencoded format.

To do that we can use the raw() function as follows:

GSP file

${raw(url)}

References:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1337464/overriding-grails-views-default-codec-html-config-back-to-none