Issue #6213 has been updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe). Status changed from Feedback to Third Party's Issue I guess it is the builder gem. ---------------------------------------- Bug #6213: Builder::XmlMarkup drops html_safe https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6213#change-25293 Author: eike.rb (Eike Dierks) Status: Third Party's Issue Priority: Low Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: 1.9.2 A single line in Builder::XmlMarkup needs to be changed slightly, to enable the builder to work with the html_safe flag that was introduced with rails3. like def method_missing(sym, *args, &block) [...] text = arg.to_s # changed this line to keep the html_safe flag -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/