title: Don't escape html in ruby on rails
body: <p>rails 3 seems to escape everything, including html.  I have tried using raw() but it still escapes html.  Is there a workaround?  This is my helper that I am using (/helpers/application_helper.rb):</p>
  
  <pre><code>module ApplicationHelper
    def good_time(status = true)
      res = ""
      if status == true
        res &lt;&lt; "Status is true, with a long message attached..."
      else
        res &lt;&lt; "Status is false, with another long message"
      end
    end
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am calling the helper in my view using this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%= raw(good_time(true)) %&gt;
  </code></pre>