How to HTML encode/escape a string? Is there a built-in?

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Checkout the Ruby CGI class. There are methods to encode and decode HTML as well as URLs.

CGI::escapeHTML('Usage: foo "bar" <baz>')
# => "Usage: foo &quot;bar&quot; &lt;baz&gt;"

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