For Rage this seems to be faster.
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class HelloWorld
html << <<~"HTML"
<tr>
<td>#{fortune.id}</td>
- <td>#{Rack::Utils.escape_html(fortune.message)}</td>
+ <td>#{CGI.escape_html(fortune.message)}</td>
</tr>
HTML
end