Grails, create-plugin not auto reloading changes - grails

I am on Grails 2.3.7.
I have a main application called momain, and have created a plugin called motest.
I then in the BuildConfig.groovy add the line:
grails.plugin.location.'motest' = "../motest"
No other references to the plugin has been made. I add a controller to motest and I can render some random text when reached in the browser.
However, when I change the output of the render and hit refresh in the browser, the changes are not reloaded from the code in the plugin! I have to run grails run-app for them to be picked up.
How can I make Grails reload changes for things in the plugin? Otherwise it becomes really tedious to separate functionality to plugins/modules.
Thanks!
EDIT
This seems to occur when I switch from
build ":tomcat:7.0.52.1"
to
build ":jetty:2.0.3"
It seems to be a problem related to jetty...

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