Rails Render Partial in Helper

Rails Render Partial in Helper

I have been trying to render one of my partials in a helper function
located within my controller.
The first issue I encountered was that the helper was returning the each
loop instead of the result of the loop. To remedy this I attempted to have
it return a string containing the results of the loop.
def display_replies(comment)
if comment.replies.count > 0
string = ""
comment.replies.each do |reply, index|
string = string + (render partial: "comment", locals: {index:
index}).to_s.html_safe
end
string
end
Called in View with <%= display_replies(reply) %>
When I look at my view, what is returned and displayed is HTML, however it
is escaped and thus plain text, it looks something like this:
["<div class='c comment'>\n<div class='profile'>\n<img
src='/assets/profile_image_sample.jpg'>\n</div>\n<div
class='message'>\n<div class='username'>Will Leach</div>\nLorem ipsum
dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus adipiscing purus et
mi aliquet malesuada. Curabitur porttitor varius turpis eget sollicitudin.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut dapibus
consectetur tortor, nec aliquet lacus tempus vitae. Sed felis massa,
dapibus in arcu sit amet, rhoncus condimentum eros. Etiam rutrum lectus in
malesuada aliquam. Mauris vitae diam vel felis accumsan vulputate vel nec
tortor. Nunc pretium hendrerit est, ut cursus ipsum commodo sit
amet.\n<div class='reply-link'>\n<a href='#'>Reply to
Comment</a>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n"]
I would simply like this to be regular unescaped HTML. I read somewhere
that adding html_safe would fix this, but alas it hasn't.
Where to go from here?