It seems Rails used to default to not escaping as well, but in Rails 3 they switched to escape by default. And from what I'm reading, nested helpers do suffer f

It seems Rails used to default to not escaping as well, but in Rails 3 they switched to escape by default. And from what I'm reading, nested helpers do suffer from the over escaping, and in fact they warn not to blindly html_safe them. But I admit, I can't find very new guides on latest versions, are you saying ERB now tracks nesting and only escape once at the end? That's actually what hiccup2 does as well by the way. I admit, it is a nicer behavior, and I'm not sure why hiccup2 hasn't gained more traction since it released, but you are free to use it, it's part of the normal hiccup release, just require hiccup2 instead of hiccup. But hiccup is not the only popular Clojure HTML templating lib. Selmer, Clostache and Stencil which are much more ERB or Django like, both HTML escape by default.