diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/erb.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/erb.rb
index f1b800cb5338839290575b399b34e427f23a4062..022fc362e76288c95858b0d20399b761cc8c9326 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/erb.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/erb.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ module Util
     HTML_ESCAPE = { '&' => '&amp;', '"' => '&quot;', '>' => '&gt;', '<' => '&lt;' }
 
     def html_escape(s)
-      s.to_s.gsub(/[&\"><]/) { |special| HTML_ESCAPE[special] }
+      s.to_s.gsub(/[&"><]/) { |special| HTML_ESCAPE[special] }
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/actionpack/test/template/erb_util_test.rb b/actionpack/test/template/erb_util_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3aff987b22e33f7a99627043d25c306726345321
--- /dev/null
+++ b/actionpack/test/template/erb_util_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../abstract_unit"
+
+class ErbUtilTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+  include ERB::Util
+  
+  def test_amp
+    assert_equal '&amp;', html_escape('&')
+  end
+  
+  def test_quot
+    assert_equal '&quot;', html_escape('"')
+  end
+
+  def test_lt
+    assert_equal '&lt;', html_escape('<')
+  end
+
+  def test_gt
+    assert_equal '&gt;', html_escape('>')
+  end
+  
+  def test_rest_in_ascii
+    (0..127).to_a.map(&:chr).each do |chr|
+      next if %w(& " < >).include?(chr)
+      assert_equal chr, html_escape(chr)
+    end
+  end
+end
+require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../abstract_unit"
+
+class ErbUtilTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+  include ERB::Util
+  
+  def test_amp
+    assert_equal '&amp;', html_escape('&')
+  end
+  
+  def test_quot
+    assert_equal '&quot;', html_escape('"')
+  end
+
+  def test_lt
+    assert_equal '&lt;', html_escape('<')
+  end
+
+  def test_gt
+    assert_equal '&gt;', html_escape('>')
+  end
+  
+  def test_rest_in_ascii
+    (0..127).to_a.map(&:chr).each do |chr|
+      next if %w(& " < >).include?(chr)
+      assert_equal chr, html_escape(chr)
+    end
+  end
+end
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