simple form country select showing as html entities

Question

At some point my form started showing html entities instead of html for the country select:

Haml:

= a.input :country

Html

  <div class="input country required"><label class="country required" for="user_account_address_attributes_country">Country <abbr title="required">*</abbr></label><select class="country required" id="user_account_address_attributes_country" name="user[account_address_attributes][country]"><option value=""></option>
                          &lt;option value=&quot;Afghanistan&quot;&gt;Afghanistan&lt;/option&gt;
                          &lt;option value=&quot;Aland Islands&quot;&gt;Aland Islands&lt;/option&gt;
                          &lt;option value=&quot;Albania&quot; selected=&quot;selected&quot;&gt;Albania&lt;/option&gt;

Answer 1

Turns out I needed to use the country_select gem.