So, the question is how can I change the generated HTML (or better yet
create a helper) to allow me to spit this out for form actions and
some link_to's, specifically the inner <span> bit?
Any help would be appreciated as my google-fu has not been strong on
this one. I'm on rails 2.3.2.
Acutally, there are no way to do it for submit_tag & button_to, those
helpers should be totally rewritten to suport the markup you need. But
if you are building a modern unobtrusive app, then you don't really
need the functionality of those helpers, so you can just replace them
with a custom helper that just generates the markup you need.