grails-ui plugin autocomplete component error - grails

I'm programming a page that uses the grails-ui plugin "autocomplete" feature. It doesn't work and the error console shows the error "YAHOO is not defined"; searching the web I tried the following:
Install the yui2 ad 3 plugins
Uninstall the grails-ui plugin
reinstall the grails-ui plugin
With no luck.
Any ideas ? I'm using grails 1.2
Here's my gsp:
<%# page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<gui:resources components="autocomplete" />
<title>Sample title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample line</h1>
<g:form action="autoespec" id="id1">
<gui:autoComplete
id="spec"
name="spec"
resultName="result"
labelField="name"
idField="id"
controller="inscripcion"
action="autoespec"
/>
<input type="text" name="query">
<input type="submit">
</g:form>
</body>
</html>
Added an input to check that the controller worked (it does).

You have to add a special class to your body.
<body class="yui-skin-sam">
...

It appears that you've got the tag namespaces wrong. Assuming you're using the latest richui plugin from http://www.grails.org/RichUI+Plugin and installed it using grails install-plugin richui you need the following tags:
<resource:autoComplete skin="default"/>
in the page head and for the autocomplete box itself:
<richui:autoComplete ... />
I also notice that the attributes you're using for the riuchui:autocomplete element are not in the documentation so you might want to give it another read: http://www.grails.org/RichUI+Plugin#AutoComplete
HTH

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5ms
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