Looking for a override of SafeBuffer

I was reading Katz's Safe Buffer article while trying to upgrade our side to Rails 3. We have a lot of helpers that build up fairly complex html/css bits from data we know is safe (we're doing things like large menus).

Unfortunately - if I'm reading Katz's article right - it seems like you need to mark everything html_safe or you get escaped.

I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a simple hack to turn this functional开发者_运维问答ity off on a module/method/block level yet? I was looking at the code in Rails that does this and it doesn't look all the trivial to override.

I believe you have a couple "easy" solutions:

1. Modify the helpers by hand so that they return html_safe'd strings
2. Iterate over the methods (module?) and use alias to alias them to, say, _unsafe_helper_name, and then have helper_name return _unsafe_helper_name.html_safe
3. Use the raw method in your views. Calling raw on output turns off Rails 3's built in protection and outputs the string just as it is with no escaping.