title: My rails helper is rendering '<' as '&lt;'! How to make it render correctly?
body: <p>I'm working on a simple plugin here, and this far it is working. 
  Except my helper. 
  Its a very simple helper, it just needs to echo a <em><code>&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</code></em> for later javascript parsing.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is, its not rendering the html correcty, its replacing special chars by the html equivalent code.</p>
  
  <p>My plugin initializer:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ActionView::Helpers.send :include, Test
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My plugin helper:</p>
  
  <pre><code>module Test    
    def only_for_testing
      render(:text =&gt; "&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;")
    end
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I call the only_for_testing helper inside the view, instead of rendering the <code>"&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"</code> it renders "<code>&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;</code>"</p>
  
  <p>I tryed remove the render, return only the string, same effect.
  I really dont want to create a partial for this, because its a very very simple html, and its not for layout, its just for parsing.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea what i may have done wrong here?</p>